Silver Mountain Resort in Kellogg is home to
North America’s longest gondola – a 3.1-mile-long journey from Kellogg’s downtown high up onto Silver Mountain, a terrific year-round resort with excellent skiing and snowboarding in winter and a variety of mountain activities in summer. Bring your mountain bike on the gondola or come as you are to simply enjoy the ride, interpretive trails on the mountain, a game of disc golf or a tasty meal in the Mountain House lodge.
From Visit North Idaho
The Legend
In 1885, a gold prospector named Noah Kellogg borrowed a burro, named Bill, and started down the great north fork of the Coeur d’Alene River. After weeks of searching with no luck, he ended up about 1,000 yards above the present city of Wardner where he made camp one last time before heading back to Murray to report. In what turned out to be a fortunate stroke of luck, Bill broke free of his rope and wandered off in search of food.
When Noah caught up with the jackass the next morning, he found Bill standing on a large outcropping of galena (lead ore), leading to the formation of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines on September 4, 1885. The Bunker Hill lode turned out to be Idaho’s largest mining operation, and today it is home to some of the finest skiing and riding found in the Northwest. Bill lived to the ripe old age of 21 and was forever known as “the $12,000,000 burro".
From Silver Mountain Resort