Winchester Lake State Park offers visitors opportunities for hiking, boating, fishing, biking, and picnicking. The park features rental yurts and RV campsites with electrical hookups. Yurts include heating and select rentals feature microwaves, deck furniture, and barbecue grills, ranging in price from $50 to $65 per night, as of December 2010. Fishermen can enjoy casting a line for rainbow trout, blue gill, perch, bass, and tiger muskie. Hikers can trek through the park trails, surrounded by Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine trees. Wildlife enthusiasts can get a glimpse of the white-tailed deer, squirrels, Canadian geese, bald eagles, muskrats, and osprey that call the park home. Families can enjoy a tour of the Wolf Education and Research Center, where guests can observe wolves face-to-face.
Visitors can find the Bunk House Bed and Breakfast five miles from Winchester, past the Winchester State Park entrance on Forest Road. Guests can stay in an 1895 homestead log cabin or in bunkhouse accommodation. Accommodations at the Bunk House Bed and Breakfast do not include phones, televisions, or Internet service. Guests can enjoy area attractions, such as the Tractor Museum, which celebrates family farming and the CAT tractor. Visitors can take a 26-mile ride on the Train on Stilts, which begins at an altitude of 730 feet before traveling to 4,800 feet above sea level, or raft down the Salmon River on an Osprey Whitewater Rafting tour. Bunk House Bed and Breakfast offers overnight boarding for visitors with horses, and activities on the property include fishing, board games, paddle boating, hiking, and horseshoes. Rates at the Bunk House Bed and Breakfast start at $60 per night, for double or single occupancy, as of December, 2010.
The Winchester Lake Lodge, located just across the street form Winchester Lake, offers cabins and lodge rooms in a nonsmoking environment. Amenities vary, depending on the room or cabin, and can include Jacuzzi bathtubs, swings, cast-iron stoves, cable televisions, and washers and dryers. The lodge provides a convenient location for visiting the St. Gertrude's Monastery and Spalding Visitor Center and Museum. Outdoor enthusiasts can enjoy nearby natural venues, including the Lewis and Clark Trail or Clearwater, Salmon, Snake, Lochsa, and Selway Rivers. Accommodations range in price from $60 to $100 per night, for double or single occupancy, as of December, 2010. The lodge does not accept credit cards, but guests can pay with money orders, cash or checks.
