Recreation

There are many recreational activities that a traveler can choose from camping, fishing to hiking and from tennis to winter sports.

For Hiking, Camping, and Fishing, the places to visit are:

Boyer Park & Marina,

Located 30 miles west of Moscow,

Call (509) 397-3208.

This is an ideal place for travelers to explore their opportunities if opting for activities such as swimming, boating, and camping. This 40-acre site has a marina, beach, tents, campgrounds, dressing rooms, showers, and laundry facilities as well. It is very close to Lower Granite Dam and hence, enables fishing. During the spring, you can witness the Kokanee working their way back home to the spawns.

County Parks:

Call (208) 883-5709

Both Latah County (Idaho) and Whitman County (Washington) offer more than a few exceptional County Park facilities. You will find Robinson Park and Virgil Phillips Farm in the Latah County. In Whitman County you will discover Kamiak Butte, Klemgard Park, Wawawai Park on the Snake River, and the Bill Chipman Palouse.

Elk Creek Falls Recreation Area

Located 54 miles east of Moscow,

This place has a series of waterfalls that plunge almost 300 feet into a forest canyon. Elk Creek and nearby Elk Creek Reservoir are some of the favorite spots in order to catch the best rainbow scenes and brook trout.

Hells Gate State Park

Call (208) 799-5015.

Located 35 minutes south of Moscow,

This place includes 200 acres of developed land that edges the Snake River as the gateway into Hells Canyon, which is extremely well known for being North America's deepest canyon. You will find abundance of grassy space for family picnics, camping, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, swimming, and wildlife viewing. The park offers 93 RV/tent campsites, 8 cabins, and a Lewis and Clark center.

Fitness centers:

The Kimberly land also has a fully outfitted gym and Turkish baths. Bitsa Equestrian Sport Club offers travelers recreational activities such as shooting, swimming, tennis, volleyball, aerobics, horse riding and paint balling, as well as a full fitness center. Apart from that, The Entertainment Center na Tulskoi, Kholodilny pereulok 3, offers its visitors roller-skating, and bowling.

Golf:

There is a fairly central nine-hole course at the Moscow City Golf Club, Dovzhenko ulitsa 1

Tel: (095) 147 1826)

They provide the enthusiastic golfers with challenging 18-hole courses.

Le Meridien Moscow Country Club

Nakhadino

Tel: (095) 926 5911).

Tennis:

The Chaika Tennis Courts,

Korobeynikov pereulok

Tel: (095) 202 0474,

Located near Park Kultury Metro station.

There is also a swimming pool in the complex.

Petrovsky Park Tennis Club,

Leningradsky prospekt 36

Tel: (095) 212 7392

Winter sports

You can engage yourself in a downhill ski jump in the Vorobyevi Hills and participate in the cross-country skiing opportunities at Izmailovsky Park and in the countryside outside of Moscow. There are abundant places to skate when the water freezes in mid-winter, includes the most famous Gorky Park.

Swimming

On hot summer days you can head to Serebryaniy, just north of the city, to enjoy a nice lazy afternoon in the warm waters and sand.

Relaxation

The banya (bathhouse) is a deeply well established Russian tradition, and many Muscovites make it an imperative part of their weekly visit. Its major elements are hot steam rooms, beauty shops, separate male and female sections, massage rooms and laundry sections. The Sandunovskiye baths, with its richly engraved Gothic room and general air of aristocratic decadence, is considered one of the best places to wash, relax and socialize.

Ice-skating

Ice-skating is a classic activity that you can most certainly experience at Chistye Prudy or Izmaylovsky Park.