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North Cascades Trails

Blanca Lake
Cedar Falls (Okanogan County)
Chain Lakes and Table Mountain
Cutthroat Lake
Cutthroat Pass (via Pacific Crest Trail)
Cutthroat Lakes and Bald Mountain
(Walt Bailey Trail / Mallardy Ridge Trail)
Sweetleehachu / Goat Lake
and Elliot Creek
Heather Lake
Heather Pass, Maple Pass, Lake Ann, and Rainy Lake (Heather-Maple Pass Loop)
Lake Ann and Lower Curtis Glacier
Lake Twentytwo
Mount Dickerman
Mount Pilchuck
Sauer’s Mountain
Wallace Falls and Wallace Lake

Central Cascades Trails

Annette Lake and
Asahel Curtis Nature Trail
Bandera Mountain
Cold Creek – Pacific Crest Trail Loop
and Mirror Lake
Commonwealth Basin, Red Pass,
and Lundin Peak
Dirty Harry’s Balcony, Dirty Harry’s Museum, and Dirty Harry’s Peak
Franklin Falls and
Snoqualmie Pass Wagon Road
Gem Lake and Wildcat Lakes
(High Lakes Trail)
Gold Creek Pond, Gold Creek,
and Alaska Lake
Granite Lakes and Granite Creek
Granite Mountain
Kendall Katwalk, Ridge Lake,
and Gravel Lake
Koppen Mountain
Lake Serene and Bridal Veil Falls
Lake Stuart
Little Si
Lodge Lake, Beaver Lake,
and Olallie Meadow
Lower Tuscohatchie Lake
(Melakwa – Pratt Lake Traverse)
Margaret Lake, Twin Lakes, Lake Lillian, and Mount Margaret
Mason Lakes, Rainbow Lake, and Island Lake (Ira Spring Trail)
Melakwa Lakes and Denny Creek
Mount Catherine
Mount Defiance
q̓əlbc̓ / Mount Si
Mount Teneriffe
Mount Washington (King County)
Pratt Lake
Rachel Lake, Rampart Lakes, Lila Lake, and Alta Mountain
Rattlesnake Ledge and
Rattlesnake Mountain
Snow Lake (King County)
Talapus Lake and Olallie Lake
Twin Falls
(South Fork Snoqualmie River)

South Cascades Trails

Bench Lake and Snow Lake
(Mt. Rainier National Park)
Carbon River
(Rainforest Loop, Old Mine, Green Lake, Chenuis Falls, and Ipsut Falls)
Lakes Trail and High Lakes Trail
(High Lakes Loop)
Mt. St. Helens
(Monitor Ridge Climbing Route)
Pinnacle Peak
(Mt. Rainier National Park)
Rampart Ridge Loop and Trail of the Shadows (Mt. Rainier National Park)
Skyline Trail
(Mt. Rainier National Park)
Tolmie Peak and Eunice Lake

Olympic Peninsula Trails

Kloshe Nanitch and the North Point
Marmot Pass
(Upper Big Quilcene Trail)
Marymere Falls, Barnes Creek,
and the Aurora Divide
Mount Muller
Mount Storm King
Mount Zion
Ozette Triangle
(Cape Alava and Sand Point)
Sol Duc Falls, Lover’s Lane Loop, Deer Lake, and Mink Lake

Lowland and Island Trails

Carbon River
(Rainforest Loop, Old Mine, Green Lake, Chenuis Falls, and Ipsut Falls)
Franklin Falls and
Snoqualmie Pass Wagon Road
Little Si
Marymere Falls, Barnes Creek,
and the Aurora Divide
Mount Constitution, Mountain Lake, Twin Lakes, and Cascade Creek
Ozette Triangle
(Cape Alava and Sand Point)
Rattlesnake Ledge and
Rattlesnake Mountain
Sauer’s Mountain
Twin Falls
(South Fork Snoqualmie River)

Featured Flora

Achlys triphylla / Achlys californica
(vanillaleaf, sweet-after-death, deer’s foot)
Bistorta bistortoides
(alpine bistort, American bistort)
Blechnum spicant
syn. Struthiopteris spicant
(deer fern, hard fern)
Chamaenerion angustifolium
syn. Chamerion angustifolium
(fireweed, rosebay willowherb)
Corallorhiza maculata
(spotted coralroot)
Cornus unalaschkensis
(western bunchberry)
Dicentra formosa
(Pacific bleeding heart,
western bleeding heart)
Gaultheria shallon
(salal, shallon, Oregon wintergreen)
Geum macrophyllum
(largeleaf avens)
Hemitomes congestum
(gnome plant, cone plant)
Lilium columbianum
(Columbia lily, Columbian lily)
Lupinus latifolius
(broadleaf lupine)
Maianthemum dilatatum
(two-leaved false Solomon’s seal,
two-leaved false lily-of-the-valley)
Maianthemum racemosum
(plumed, or, feathery false Solomon’s seal, Solomon’s plume)
Maianthemum stellatum
(star-flowered, or, starry false Solomon’s seal; star-flowered, or,
starry false lily-of-the-valley)
Monotropa hypopitys
syn. Hypopitys monotropa
(pinesap)
Monotropa uniflora
(ghost pipe, ghost plant, ghost flower, corpse plant)
Neottia cordata
(heart-leaf twayblade, lesser twayblade)
Olsynium douglasii
(grass-widow, purpled-eyed grass,
satin flower)
Spiraea splendens
(subalpine spiraea, rosy spiraea,
mountain meadow sweet)
Tellima grandiflora
(fringecup)
Tolmiea menziesii
(youth-on-age, piggyback plant)
Trillium ovatum
(Pacific trillium, western trillium,
western white trillium, western wakerobin)
Viola glabella
(pioneer violet, stream violet)
Viola sempervirens
(evergreen violet, redwood violet)
Xerophyllum tenax
(common beargrass)

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