This is the place you slow down without getting cut off from the rest of your life.
The roads through Clagstone are public. Lakes Highway District plows them every storm, so there is nothing to shovel and nothing to negotiate with a road board about in January. Twenty-six minutes south is Coeur d’Alene, with groceries, a good hospital, and dinner on the lake when the day calls for it. Twenty-eight minutes north is Sandpoint. Spokane International is about an hour, for the longer visits with grandchildren.
The land next door is Stimson timberland, thirteen thousand working acres that put a real buffer between you and the next subdivision line. Beyond that, the Bunco trailhead reaches into the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. The view you retire to is the view that stays.
Homesites run six acres, give or take, sited to hold a single-story home without crowding a neighbor, with south-facing building envelopes and a Design Review Board written into the covenants. The developer lives nearby. Twenty acres of shared open space run through the middle so you have a walk without having to drive to one.
The practical side of slowing down sits closer than the quiet suggests. Twin Lakes VillageTwin Lakes VillagePublic 18-hole course in Rathdrum.golftwinlakes.com, a public eighteen-hole course beside the lower lake, is about fifteen minutes away, and the famous floating green on Lake Coeur d’Alene is thirty-five. That good hospital in Coeur d’Alene is Kootenai HealthKootenai HealthRegional medical center, Level II trauma, Coeur d'Alene.kh.org, the region’s Level II trauma center, with walk-in clinics much nearer in Rathdrum and Hayden. The fishing ten minutes east on Lake Pend Oreille produced the state-record rainbow. Natural gas at the frontage means the furnace runs on a meter, not a propane delivery calendar. The senior centers in Spirit Lake and Rathdrum still do a real Tuesday bingo, and Idaho does not tax Social Security.
It is peace and quiet, with none of the isolation people usually trade for it.
All of that sits on actual ground. See the fifty-eight on the plat →
