Your Outdoor Photos: October 2024

The Inland Northwest is full of flora, fauna, waters, scenery and active people out to savor it all. Please visit this gallery regularly to share photos of your wild experiences, learning moments, hot discoveries, favorite trips. Help us build a visual tour of what's so great about the outdoors in this region through all four seasons. This photo gallery will be an inspiration to some people. To others it will be a reminder of why we love to live here – and get outside as much as possible.

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Fri., Oct. 4, 2024

Photos in This Album

Photo by Gary Woollett Mt. Spokane Park Drive November 6th 2024 1st photo sent was not the right one! UGH

Photographer: Theresa Woollett
Canon Hill Pond, south hill, this weekend. A happy mallard duck singing a happy song!

Photographer: Jerry R O L W E S
10.48% waning crescent moon rising in the early morning eastern sky.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Manito City Park, Japanese Garden, Saturday, 10-26-24 Great Blue Heron fishing in pond

Photographer: Jerry R O L W E S
Moose Calf at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge.

Photographer: Bruce Blaser
Mule deer in fall colors at the Bison Range in Montana. 10/24/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Golden Larch

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Vintage pickup truck cab in the field.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Taking a run on a beautiful fall day, Davis Creek, Pend Oreille County, 10-23-24

Photographer: Nia Patton
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS taken on 14 October after sunset in the Garland District.

Photographer: Tom Bauer
Red Tailed Hawk on the Palouse

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Harvest on the Palouse

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Last Hurrah of Summer 10/15/24 Sun setting on our campsite in the Riverside State Park Equestrian Campground. We were the only ones there saying goodbye to the summer riding trails.

Photographer: Gary Miller
Last Hurrah of Summer 10/15/24 Sun setting on our campsite in the Riverside State Park Equestrian Campground. We were the only ones there saying goodbye to the summer riding trails.

Photographer: Gary Miller
85.1% Waning Gibbous Moon

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Turnbull in beautiful Fall colors and a Monarch to round it out taken on a very pretty morning. Oct 18 2024.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
October 16,2024 Ponderosa Ridge

Photographer: Kristi Hilbush
Hunter's full moon rising.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Hunter's full moon setting in the western sky in the early morning.

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
A big moose and fall colors, a perfect photo op. This fine fellow was in the the wetland just north of Cheney in the middle of October

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Fly By. Trumpeter swans flying over 30 acre lake at Turnbull wildlife Refuge. 10/2/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Fishing is good at Round Lake, Idaho, October 14th

Photographer: Nia Patton
Rose in black & white

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Rose in color

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Abandoned hay barn with the aurora on the evening of Oct 10.

Photographer: Mark Stoeser
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS just after sunset on the 13th of October. Taken in the Garland District. The comet will be visible higher above the horizon each night in the up coming days. It is currently visible with the naked eye, but much better in a pair of binoculars.

Photographer: Tom Bauer
An almost 180 degree panorama made up of 5 individual photos stitched together into a mosaic. Each photo was about two seconds in length and the camera took a while to save as it was using noise reduction. The photo were taken the night of Thursday October 10 just west of Spangle, WA. Notice the how bright the aurora is compared to the Pleiades. This looks like a tiny Big Dipper on the right side of the image.

Photographer: Tom Bauer
74.5% waxing gibbous moon

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
It always seems so out of place to see a Blue Heron in a tree but that's where this one was when I visited Queen Lucas Lake, located at the end of the Fish Lake Trail, the second week of October

Photographer: Melaine Williams
I went walking in the James T Slavin Conservation area at the begining of October. Always a wonderful place to visit it is especially pretty when the leaves start changing.

Photographer: Melaine Williams
Bull Moose in fall colors at Turnbull Wildlife Refuge. 10/9/24

Photographer: Mark Hendrickson
Northern lights over Deer Park. October 7, 2024

Photographer: Mark V
Orange Rose

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
Pink rose

Photographer: Mary Jo Stauner
I am cream and brown now but by the time Santa comes I will be snow white. Taken Oct 6 2024 west of Cheney

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
I was surprised to see this little guy as he was to see me come winter he will be snow white hope to find him again in that color phase. Taken west of Cheney Oct 6 2024.

Photographer: Buck Domitrovich Cheney W.A.
Hiking down Upper Priest River trail after visiting American Falls, Priest Lake, Idaho, October 5th

Photographer: Nia Patton