Amenities

Boat-in access only, and even that is dependent on the water level. Typically, from June to September the water is high enough to reach this area. No amenities. Boat-in camping is possible.

History

This spot is a local rarity in that the only existing history relates to an indigenous person. According to existing records, this spot is named for a native man, although who, precisely, is unknown. There are no records of private ownership of the property, and it is currently owned by the US Forest Service.

The spot was almost certainly frequented by other native people prior to and concurrent with the arrival of settlers, but at the time, no written records were kept by the native peoples of the area. Local Kalispel is a dialect of Salish, a language family spoken widely by tribes in the Pacific and Inland Northwest. Like the majority of the world’s endangered languages, Kalispel does not have a historic written form, and in current written documentation, uses a standard phonetic alphabet created by linguists to precisely transcribe sounds. This is particularly useful for language revitalization efforts, because many Kalispel phonetics do not exist in English.