Red Top #1364.1
Jun 04, 2006
- Type of Outing
- Day hike
- Read More in our Hiking Guide
- Hike: Red Top Lookout
- Region: Snoqualmie Pass -- Salmon La Sac/Teanaway
- Agency: Okanogan - Wenatchee National Forest, Cle Elum Ranger District
- Trails: Red Top (#1364.1)
- Avg Rating: 3.12
On advice from Joan Burton's great new book Hiking with Kids: Western Washington & Cascades, we decided to try the short trip to the Red Top Mountain Lookout. We weren't disappointed.
The route, which is perhaps a little over a mile round trip, is a great hike for young kids. The trail is a little steep, and you should have a good hold of their hands on the final little stretch to the top, but all in all a great little trail that gets you to great little lookout. Couldn't see out to the Stuart Range, but had glimpses down to the Teanaway and other surrounding valleys. Route is completely snowfree and roads are clear to the trailhead (it's a bit of a drive, so best do it basing from car camping or an overnight somewhere in the area).
Trail completely snowfree, saw trilliums in bloom in the old growth forest, and what I think were purple waterleaf (Hydrophyllum capitatum) near the summit. Oh and found great little agate for a souvenir (you can hike a 2-mile round trip from a junction below the summit to what some big collections of agates, apparently). Nice little hike.
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