Amenities

Public dirt road, no amenities. Water access only.

History

The Spokane International Railway constructed the first Carr Creek train bridge out of timber in 1906. The new railroad ran between Spokane, Washington, and Eastport, Idaho, on the Canadian border, where it connected with the Canadian Pacific railroad. The original timber bridge was later replaced with the current steel one. 

For decades, timber companies used the Pend Oreille River to transport logs from the forests to the sawmills during the spring high water. After completion of the Albeni Falls Dam, the once reliable river current turned sluggish. The narrow span of the new Carr Creek railroad bridge — just 72 feet — compounded the problem. The solution was to hold the logs in long narrow connected formations, known as brailes, which were then pulled downriver by sturdy tugboats.