Bird Creek Meadows

Started from Cold Springs Trailhead on trail #183. In an easy and about an approx. mile. #183 intersects the Around the Mountain Trail #9. The hiker enters the Mt. Adams Wilderness before the junction, but the sign is posted just past the junction on #183. From the junction go east. This is an easy and flat 2 mile trail to Bird Creek Meadows with great views down to farms of Trout Lake, Mt. Hood, and points all around. Trail crosses the Aiken Lava Bed, which showcases great basaltic flows. Just before the Reservation boundary, pass trail #11. Continuing to Bird Creek Meadows, leave the Mt. Adams Wilderness and enter the Yakama Nation. Much exploring to do here in all directions. More than your mind can imagine. If you stay on the trail, then in less than a half mile reach the junction for Crooked Creek Falls-not to be missed just a short half mile hike to these falls.

Although late August, flowers are just blooming, more species than these legs know-asters, lupine, beargrass, phlox, paintbrush, and more! Still a few patches of snow here and there, not including the grand views of Adams and Hellroaring drainage.

I believe a fee is required for use in the Yakama Nation, and I would be glad to pay it to maintain such a special place. However, no signs or payment method was possible from this access. And surprisingly, I saw no one the entire time I was there--on a Saturday.