Trails
Aurora Creek Trailhead, Olympic Nat’l Park
Barnes Creek Trail, Olympic Nat’l Park
Storm King Ranger Station Trailhead, Olympic Nat’l Park
Aurora Divide Trail, Olympic Nat’l Park
Aurora Divide Trail is an internal trail system connector, without a trailhead of its own. It lies along the border between Aurora Ridge and Happy Lake Ridge, and their trails. … cont’d >
Crystal Ridge Abandoned Trail, Olympic Nat’l Park
Mount Mueller Trail, US Forest Service, Olympic Peninsula
Mount Mueller Trail is a US Forest Service project just outside Olympic National Park, near the west end of Lake Crescent along the main US Highway 101.
The trail is a loop from its Mount Mueller Trailhead. The main attraction is a high, sharp, forested ridge (with Mount Mueller itself about midway). The other side of the loop runs along the valley floor of the Sol Duc River, a few tenths of a mile back off the highway, through classic valley-floor rainforest . US 101 runs right down the Sol Duc valley for miles, almost to the town of Forks.
Morse Creek Abandoned Trail
Happy Lake Ridge Trailhead, Olympic Nat’l Park a well-made pullout, hidden in glare of famous neighbor
Pullout trailhead for Happy Lake Ridge Trail
Happy Lake Ridge Trailhead is a roomy pullout along the upper Olympic Hot Springs Road. It’s a shy mile beyond the Observation Point lookout, and a couple miles before the end of the road at Boulder Creek Trailhead. It is at 1,700′, up the northern side of Boulder Creek canyon some 650′. Traffic is usually light; the main useage being folks using the trailhead at the end. A good spot to stop and look around, without being committed to the almost 3,000′ climb of Happy Lake Ridge Trail. … cont’d >
Aurora Ridge Trail, Olympic Nat’l Park near-in backcountry, some safe route-finding, sedate splendor, light usage
Aurora Ridge Trail runs 16 miles along Aurora Ridge, which borders the south side of Lake Crescent, in the northwest of Olympic National Park. Its Aurora Ridge Trailhead is on the Sol Duc Hot Springs Road. The trail climbs the west end of the ridge gradually, eventually gaining 3,000 feet, before ending in the east – still in high country – at the intersection with Aurora Divide Trail.