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Dishman, Spokane Valley — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Blasted granite gave Dishman its name in 1889. The district lines Sprague Avenue in Spokane Valley, Washington, under the pine ridges of the Dishman Hills.
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Where to stay in Dishman
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Dishman has no hotel quarter of its own. The district's beds sit on the Sprague Avenue and Appleway Boulevard couplet, handy for Interstate 90 and for the Camp Caro trailhead but thin on anything walkable after dark. Spokane, the larger city a short drive west, holds the region's deeper room stock. Book Dishman if you are driving, starting early, and heading into the Dishman Hills.
Few places to stay in Dishman — most visitors book in Spokane nearby.
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About Dishman
What are the main landmarks in Dishman?
Dishman's defining feature is the ground it was quarried from. The Dishman Hills rise straight off the district's southern edge, a jumble of granite outcrops, potholes, and gullies scoured by the Glacial Lake Missoula floods and grown over with ponderosa pine. Camp Caro sits at their foot on Sargent Road, a county lodge and trailhead on land the Caro family gave away in the 1940s.
Everything else here is roadside. Sprague Avenue and Appleway Boulevard carry the shopfronts west to east, while Argonne Road and Mullan Road come down from Interstate 90 as a one-way pair.
What is the history of Dishman?
Dishman began with a quarry. Addison Dishman opened it in 1889 in the granite cliffs just south of the settlement, and his surname went onto the ground around it. A trading post followed in 1895, built for his brother Wilton, with a saloon and a blacksmith shop behind it.
The crossroads became a stop on the electric railway east to Coeur d'Alene. Apples were the chief crop until about 1925, when truck farming took over. Dishman never incorporated, and in 2003 it was folded into the new city of Spokane Valley alongside Opportunity and Veradale.
Where is Dishman?
Dishman covers the valley floor between Interstate 90 and the Dishman Hills, on the western side of Spokane Valley and immediately west of Opportunity.
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What is the best area to stay in Dishman?
Dishman: drivers basing near Interstate 90 and the Dishman Hills trailheads. Spokane: an evening on foot rather than behind a wheel.
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Updated October 2026