Hawleys Landing, Idaho — From Transportation Stop to State-Park Gateway

Hawleys Landing now functions primarily as a gateway to water recreation at the southern end of Lake Coeur d'Alene.

The marina and campground sit within Heyburn State Park and the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, placing the locality inside both a modern recreation landscape and a much older Indigenous homeland.

The word “landing” points to an earlier era when boats were practical transportation through the lower St. Joe and lake system. Modern roads reduced that role, while the state park gave the shoreline a new reason to draw people.

Campers, anglers and boaters now arrive where earlier travelers used water because it was simply the sensible way through.

The landing survived. Its passengers changed.