Editing Moscow, Idaho (section)

==Parks and recreation==
[[File:Moscow, Idaho Renaissance Fair Maypole Dance.jpg|thumb|200px|Maypole dancers in East&nbsp;City&nbsp;Park]]
[[File:East-city-park-2-moscow-id-us.png|thumb|upright|Picnic table in East City Park]]
There are seventeen [[neighborhood park]]s located throughout the town offering a wide variety of venues for outdoor activities. These parks fall under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Parks and Recreation Department. The Moscow Pathways Commission<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/commissions/Pages/moscow-pathways.aspx|title=Moscow Pathways Commission|website=Ci.moscow.id.us|access-date=27 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406162304/http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/commissions/Pages/moscow-pathways.aspx|archive-date=6 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> (formerly Paradise Path Task Force) is a citizen committee seeking to develop a system of [[Greenway (landscape)|linearly connected parks]] throughout the area. Carol Ryrie Brink Nature Park was a community collaboration between the Palouse Clearwater Environmental Institute and local volunteers to [[Meander|remeander]] Paradise Creek and add [[Riparian zone|riparian]] plantings. The Moscow community, including schools and the city, led by local youth, raised money over several years to fund, design, and build a [[skate park]] that was completed in 2000. A&nbsp;park just north of the university is named for Admiral [[Robert L. Ghormley|Robert Ghormley]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Ghormley Park|url=http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/parks-rec/parks/Pages/ghormley.aspx|publisher=City of Moscow|access-date=2 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430061702/http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/parks-rec/parks/Pages/ghormley.aspx|archive-date=30 April 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> from 1933 to 1997, it was the site of the city's outdoor [[swimming pool]].<ref name=qukfx>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=G08tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=utAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4948%2C764433|work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=Boswell |first=Nina |title=Quick fix |date=June 23, 1997 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name=toxcwtr>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q74jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xdAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6322%2C277988 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=Boswell |first=Nina |title=Ghormley's toxic water |date=July 5, 1997 |page=3A}}</ref><ref name=noplop>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SL4jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xdAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2581%2C713752 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=Boswell |first=Nina |title=Ghormley pool won't be opening |date=July 11, 1997 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name=ltgoswmg>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oZUrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1dAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5555%2C2024964 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=Boswell |first=Nina |title=Let's go swimming |date=May 27, 1998 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name=gplkb>{{cite news |url=https://www.ci.moscow.id.us/DocumentCenter/View/18600/Ghormley-Park |publisher=City of Moscow |title=Ghormley Park |date=2015 |accessdate=April 1, 2022}}</ref> Its replacement, the Hamilton-Lowe Aquatics Center in northeast Moscow, opened in June 2000.<ref name=pdvtmn>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=r7ojAAAAIBAJ&sjid=n9AFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4988%2C488359 |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=McDonough |first=Ted |title=Palouse dive time nears |date=May 27, 2000 |page=1A}}</ref><ref name=wwwow>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=0KZCP5UExFUC&dat=20000605&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |work=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=McDonough |first=Ted |title=Wet, wild, wow |date=June 5, 2000 |page=1A}}</ref>

The Latah Trail, completed in October 2008, extends from the eastern edge of Moscow [[Segregated cycle facilities|bike path]] system to [[Troy, Idaho|Troy]], parallel to the [[Idaho State Highway 8|Troy Highway]] (SH-8) for most of its {{convert|12|mi|spell=in}}. On&nbsp;the west side of Moscow, the [[Bill Chipman Palouse Trail]] connects the two university communities of the [[Palouse]]. Starting at the University of Idaho's Perimeter Road, it gradually descends with Paradise Creek for {{convert|8|mi|spell=in}} to Pullman through [[Whitman County, Washington|Whitman County]], alongside the [[Washington State Route 270|Moscow-Pullman Highway]]. Completed in April 1998,<ref name=chpopn>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KIokAAAAIBAJ&pg=5920%2C373589 |newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |last=LaBoe |first=Barbara |title=All-weather trail: rain doesn't dampen the fun as Chipman trail officially opens|date=April 6, 1998|page=1A}}</ref> the trail honors a Pullman businessman (and UI alumnus) who died two years earlier, following a winter highway accident in [[Spokane County, Washington|Spokane County]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OYokAAAAIBAJ&pg=2972,662849 |newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News |title=Pullman businessman remembered as man of integrity|date=January 11, 1996|page=1A}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jcwqAAAAIBAJ&pg=5907,1216228&|newspaper=Moscow-Pullman Daily News|title=Bill Chipman hospitalized after accident|date=December 16, 1995|page=10A}}</ref> The Paradise Path bridges the gap in Moscow between the endpoints of the Chipman and Latah trails, passing through the north and east edges of the UI campus. The trail systems together constitute a continuous {{convert|22|mi|km|adj=on}} paved linear park from Pullman to Troy, extending in Troy beyond the eastern boundary of the [[Palouse]] ecosystem. From Pullman to the western boundary of Moscow (the state line), it follows the right of way of a dismantled [[Union Pacific]] railroad line, and east of [[U.S. Route 95|US-95]] it follows the right of way of a dismantled [[Burlington Northern Santa Fe|BNSF]] railroad line that junctioned at Arrow on the [[Clearwater River (Idaho)|Clearwater River]] by way of Troy, [[Kendrick, Idaho|Kendrick]], and [[Juliaetta, Idaho|Juliaetta]].

The defunct [[Tamarack Ski Area (Troy, Idaho)|Tamarack Ski Area]] was on the east-facing slope of East Moscow Mountain;<ref name=lchstamsl>{{cite news |url=https://www.latahcountyhistoricalsociety.org/post/the-tamarack-ski-lodge |publisher=Latah County (Idaho) Historical Society |last1=Burns |first1=Ariana |last2=Fleener |first2=Dusty |agency=(Palouse Anthropology) |title=The Tamarack Ski Lodge |date=January 7, 2021 |accessdate=April 1, 2022}}</ref> a grove of ancient [[Thuja plicata|red cedar]] trees is nearby, just northeast of Moscow Mountain's summit.<ref name=tkastd/>