Aurora Creek Trail, lower with understory
Aurora Creek Trail starts on the bank across from its small paved pullout Aurora Ridge Trailhead, beside US Highway 101 on Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park, and goes straight up the forested side of Aurora Ridge from which the highway is literally carved, up about 3,600′ in 3.4 miles. A very reasonable trail at all times, it tends to its main purpose of gaining altitude in a business-like manner. It is lightly used and not always maintained, but being under heavy canopy lower-down, and later on rocky footings further-up, the path itself does not deteriorate. … cont’d >