By breakfast on Friday, July 31, three separate festivals will have opened within a fifteen-minute walk of each other, and the geography of downtown will belong to roughly a hundred thousand people who are not you. If you live here, the weekend is not a question of whether to go. It is a question of when and from which direction.
The trick most residents figure out only after a few summers is that the Downtown Street Fair, Art on the Green, and Taste of Coeur d'Alene are not really three events. They are one pressure system with three centers of gravity, and each pulls the crowd in a predictable direction at a predictable hour. Read the map first, and the weekend opens up. Ignore it, and you spend Saturday afternoon parked six blocks from where you meant to be.
Three centers, one weekend
The events overlap in time but not in place, which is the whole reason the map matters.
Art on the Green anchors the west end. The 58th annual festival sets up on the North Idaho College lawn at 1000 W. Garden Avenue, with
