See this detailed map with directions.

Caution: do not speed going down the Lewiston grade, where the speed limit is only 55. Take the Lewiston exit and  . . .

• As you cross the bridge over the Clearwater River, just after you've gone through the first traffic light in north Lewiston, move into the left lane. Keep in that lane as you go through the next traffic light. This will put you on 21st Street.
• Continue up 21st Street to the second traffic light, the one at 11th Avenue. Albertson's supermarket will be on your right.
• Turn right (west) on 11th Avenue, and go through two traffic lights (at 17th Street and at 8th Street) for a little more than a mile to Sixth Street.
• Turn right (north) on Sixth Street and go three blocks. Our house will be on your right just before you get to 8th Avenue.

You can park on the street or in any of the parking lots on the right side of the street between 10th Avenue and 8th Avenues.

Some facts to keep in mind about Lewiston, but that aren't absolutely necessary to know in order to get to our house:

• When you are going south in Lewiston, you are usually going uphill, a fact that can be confusing to those like me who associate going north with going uphill.
• Avenues in Lewiston run east-west. Streets run north-south. (This is also opposite to what you might expect.)
• Two of the streets that begin downtown change their names after going south for half a mile or so because they sort of jog when they come up the hill (9th Street downtown becomes 8th Street; 18th Street becomes 17th Street), but 21st Street (the recommended route), 13th Street, and 5th Street do not change their names in that part of town.
• Further south, in the Orchards part of town, 14th Street becomes 4th Street; 17th Street becomes 5th Street; and 21st Street becomes Thain Grade, then Thain Road, then 14th Street, then Ripon Ave., and then Tammany Creek Rd.
• Do not confuse Lewis-Clark State College, one of the four state-supported four-year institutions of higher learning in Idaho (the other three being UI, BSU, and ISU), with Lewis and Clark College, a swanky private school in Portland.
• See more directions here: http://www.lcsc.edu/admissions/directions.htm.

See this detailed map with directions.

Posted by Gordon Thomas, January 4, 2006