{"id":942,"date":"2012-12-08T14:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2015-03-10T14:30:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:30:14","slug":"americas-prettiest-winter-towns-travel-and-leisure-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/americas-prettiest-winter-towns-travel-and-leisure-december-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Prettiest Winter Towns Travel and Leisure December 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/articles\/americas-prettiest-winter-towns\/12\">http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/articles\/americas-prettiest-winter-towns\/12<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">Sandpoint, ID<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx_inspected_extr spx_global\" style=\"color: #252525;\">With the Selkirk Mountains (alt. 8,000 feet) as their backdrop and Lake Pend Oreille for a centerpiece, Sandpoint\u2019s roughly 7,500 residents are largely of the skiing, sailing, hiking, fishing, and paddleboarding variety. But the town also supports the arts; see what\u2019s playing at the historic Spanish mission\u2013style Panida Theater. Breweries, a vineyard, and a fiercely independent retail and dining scene are icing on the cake for locals\u2014and travelers savvy enough to swing by. Sandpoint is only 75 miles from Spokane, across the Washington State border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"spx_inspected_extr spx_global\" style=\"color: #252525;\"><strong>Winter Fun:<\/strong>\u00a0Join\u00a0<a style=\"color: #cc0000;\" title=\"Selkirk Powder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.selkirkpowder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Selkirk Powder<\/a>\u00a0for Sno-cat treks to Schweitzer Mountain\u2019s wild west side, where you and a maximum of nine others can enjoy 4,000 acres of fresh tracks in terrain tracked by mountain lions and home to woodland caribou and grizzly bears.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/articles\/americas-prettiest-winter-towns\/12 Sandpoint, ID With the Selkirk Mountains (alt. 8,000 feet) as their backdrop and Lake Pend Oreille for a centerpiece, Sandpoint\u2019s roughly 7,500 residents are largely of the skiing, sailing, hiking, fishing, and paddleboarding variety. But the town also supports the arts; see what\u2019s playing at the historic Spanish mission\u2013style Panida Theater. Breweries, a vineyard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[265,91,266],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sandpoint-accolades","tag-prettiest-town","tag-sandpoint-idaho","tag-travel-and-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}