Washington has a few long distance paved or gravel routes and we rode almost all of the Olympic Discovery Trail over the summer. This time we rode a section of the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail. The full trail is a 212-mile trail that goes from Cedar Falls in the .Cascade Mountains to the …
Month: September 2024
There are enough trails at Teanaway to ride more than once and we did. This time we incorporated a couple gravel road sections to get out to Mammoth Rock. We got off to a rough start when the gravel road we initially took ended at a gate and private property sign. We weren’t sure if …
Teanaway Community Forest in Cle Elum, Washington has something like 280 trails, though some of those are forest roads. The 50,241-acre landscape lies at the headwaters of the Yakima Basin watershed. Washington state purchased the land in 2013 with funding provided by the Legislature and established Washington’s first state-owned community forest. The forest contains nearly 400 …
After an overnight stop to see my aunt by Olympia, we drove up and over Snowqualimie Pass and are in Cle Elum for two weeks. With our $30 annual Discovery Pass we can camp for “free” in the forest. We found a nice quiet spot and are settled in. Our first day we hiked to …