Cat Creek delta and lower canyon, from Upper Lake Mills Trail
Cat Creek is a left-bank, western tributary of the middle Elwha River, a drainage of the Bailey Range of the Olympic Mountains in the Olympic National Park. There are no trails (or roads) into this watershed. Partial views into Cat-terrain can be had from the subalpine Hurricane Ridge Recreation Area. Good glimpses of the lower & middle reaches of its cleft into the Baileys massif are easily obtained via the 0.4 mile Upper Lake Mills Trail, which ends directly across the river from the Cat junction. … cont’d >