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![Spokane](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Spokane%2C_Washington_skyline_%28cropped%29.jpg/3840px-Spokane%2C_Washington_skyline_%28cropped%29.jpg)

# Spokane

Spokane is a city in and the county seat of Spokane County in the U.S.

[Plan a trip to Spokane](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Spokane) [From Portland](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Portland&to=Spokane)

## Every way there

- Portland → Spokane 466 km · quickest by road, 6h 57m · $45–60 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/portland-to-spokane) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Portland&to=Spokane)
- Seattle → Spokane 367 km · quickest by road, 5h 25m · $36–50 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/seattle-to-spokane) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Seattle&to=Spokane)
- Boise → Spokane 460 km · quickest by air, 3h 28m · $150–230 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/boise-to-spokane) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Boise&to=Spokane)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Spokane, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Spokane](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/spokane)

What Spokane has

- Y Scheduled flights Spokane (GEG), 9 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

47.659°, -117.425°

state of Washington. It lies along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, 110 miles (180 km) south of the Canadian border, twenty miles (30 km) west of the Idaho state line, 279 miles (449 km) southwest of Calgary, and 280 miles (450 km) east of Seattle, via I-90.

How locals move

## Getting around Spokane the local way

- Go next Helens are multi-day trips popular with locals.

From [Wikivoyage: Spokane](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Spokane), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane%2C_Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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