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 …
There are so many little port towns around the Olympic Peninsula. We visited Port Townsend earlier in the summer and had a great time. This time we were in the area to ride part of the Discovery Trail and around Fort Worden. The Larry Scott section of Discovery Trail from Milo-Curry Trailhead into downtown Port …
There are so many places in this great big country that still feel raw. Sure, logging is big up on the Olympic Peninsula and the land has been manipulated and utilized. There are mazes of gravel logging roads crisscrossing the mountains, and those make for good gravel exploring. This ride wound around some of them …
Previously we visited Port Townsend and Fort Worden and the other day we went to Fort Flagler. Fort Flager is on Marrowstone Island and we drove there to start our ride. Marrowstone Island’s name comes from Marrowstone Point, bestowed upon the northernmost tip of the island by British explorer George Vancouver in 1792. Vancouver apparently …
Our latest version of the Discovery Trail entailed riding east from Sequim through Jamestown S’Kalallum Tribal land to Discovery Bay and back. In 1855, the S’Klallam leaders signed a treaty with the Federal government with the understanding that they would always be able to hunt, fish and gather in their “usual and accustomed” grounds. As …
On the warmest day of the year so far, we rode a gravel loop out by Blyn, Washington which is east of Port Angeles. When people think of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington I imagine they don’t get the true grandeur of the landscape. The terrain is VERY hilly and mountainous and our ride reflected …
Deer Park is part of Olympic National Park and the road up is an adventure itself. It’s still closed to cars right now so Derek took the opportunity to ride to the top to check it out. I hiked the lower part. This road is a beast. It’s 8.5 miles up and 3820′ of climbing. …
Madison Creek Falls is located within Olympic National Park near the Elwha River, west of Port Angeles, Washington. A very short hike to a mossy maple and cedar lined grotto and bam, there is the 50 foot Madison Creek Falls. There is almost no hike to get to it and while I wouldn’t drive all the way out here …
As I said in a previous post, the Olympic Discovery Trail is long. We plan to break it into sections and explore them all since we have time. The other day we drove out to Lake Crescent and rode the section called Spruce Railroad plus extra. This was once a railroad used to haul Sitka …
Fort Stevens State Park has a really nice network of paved paths with a short section of trail. We camped in the park and took one morning to ride around and explore. This was more of a meandering ride that anyone could do. For thousands of years the Clatsop Indians lived here. In 1851 the …