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By Red Thread
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The previous price was AU$10 and current price is AU$8 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 58m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Discover how a mid-sized industrial city pulled off an audacious miracle: host the world's first environmentally themed World's Fair, clear miles of choking city centre rail tracks, and give a thundering river back to its people. Guided by an urban planner and a candid local, walk through roaring fall views, saved carousels, mechanical trash-eating goats, and sacred Salish islands, uncovering how vision, politics, and sheer persistence rebuilt a city centre.

    • A 3.1 km self-guided tour with 8 stops over 118 min
    • Ideal for travellers interested in Urbanism, Infrastructure & Innovation and History & Memory
    • Immersively told in a podcast style by experts and locals
    • Matching audio content, AI guide and navigation through the app

Activity location

  • Riverfront Park
    • 507 North Howard Street
    • 99201, Spokane, Washington, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Riverfront Park
    • 507 North Howard Street
    • 99201, Spokane, Washington, United States

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Podcast Tour Expo 74 How Spokane Reclaimed Its Falls in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 58 minutes1h 58m
    1h 58m
  • Opening hours: Mon 12:00 am-11:59 pm
  • English
Price details
AU$9.69
AU$7.75 x 1 AdultAU$7.75
Total
The previous price was AU$9.69 and current price is AU$7.75
20% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Verified facts woven into an engaging storey
  • Inclusions
    Interactive in-app guide for questions about the storey and surroundings
  • Inclusions
    Precise navigation between the stops
  • Inclusions
    Immersive podcast-style audio featuring experts and locals

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Riverfront Park

  • 10m
The iconic survivor of a demolished 1902 passenger depot, marking the pivot point where rail yards yielded to public parkland. Find the Great Northern Clock Tower on Havermale Island within Riverfront Park.

Gesa Pavilion

  • 10m
The central pavilion of Expo '74, featuring a groundbreaking tensile cable structure that signaled a new era of environmental design.

Riverfront Park

  • 10m
A popular interactive copper sculpture created for Expo '74 that vacuum-cleans park litter through a whimsical metal goat head. Find the Garbage-Eating Goat near the carousel in Riverfront Park.

Looff Carrousel

  • 10m
A historic 1909 hand-carved carousel saved from a closing amusement park and integrated into Riverfront Park's master plan.

Canada Island

  • 10m
Snxw Meneɂ, formerly Canada Island, was renamed in 2017 to honour the Salish heritage of the Spokane Tribe and their ancient salmon fishing sites.

Huntington Park

  • 10m
A public park terraced directly into the rocky gorge alongside working hydroelectric infrastructure, offering close views of the lower Spokane Falls.

Monroe Street Bridge

  • 10m
A dramatic vantage point over the Spokane River gorge where a massive railway trestle once blocked views of the falls from the public.

The Flour Mill

  • 10m
An 1895 industrial flour mill converted during Expo '74 into a pioneering adaptive-reuse shopping and dining complex.

Location

Activity location

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    Riverfront Park
    • 507 North Howard Street
    • 99201, Spokane, Washington, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Riverfront Park
    • 507 North Howard Street
    • 99201, Spokane, Washington, United States

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