This is a nicely maintained trail system meandering thru a quiet forest and a good option for a cloudy or rainy day.

We parked at Putney and hiked on the connector trail to Saratoga Woods.   With so many intersections and limited signage its helpful to use a gps app.

Loo at TH was recently cleaned and had TP and hand sanitizer.

A fun little hike! We did about 6 miles. This is a great trail system for getting in those longer hikes in the winter. We parked at the Putney parking lot and hiked over to the Saratoga section. This is a more interesting section IMHO with some fun stuff to see. First there is the glacial erratic, a very large rock left by receding glaciers. According to various descriptions, this one is one of the biggest in the state and may have come all the way from Mt Constitution! The trail to it is not marked, but it's off the Old Airstrip trail to the left. We piled a couple of sticks to mark the spot. We wandered around and took the Bent Tree Trail, where in fact, there were several bent trees. Working our way back by way of the Wood Nymph, we intersected with the airstrip where there was a piece of rusted out equipment left over probably from logging done years ago. We ate lunch on a log here, then headed back. I strongly suggest downloading a map from the Island County park website or printing it from the Urban Hikes Everett book. Most trails have fun colorful names but some intersections are not marked. There is plenty more to explore, but we were ready for coffee and wanted to beat the rain. Loo clean and stocked. 

Starting from the Putney Trailhead, did a relatively short loop combining the Trail of Wild Fell, Rocky Road, and Canter berry trails.  Trails were wide and mostly flat except a short uphill on the Trail of Wild Fell just south of the parking lot.  Shooting was distinctly audible for much of the time, apparently coming from the east.  We saw just a couple of horse poops, but as we returned to the parking lot there was a horse-riding group about to set out.

More hikey than I was expecting from a community trail system, which was great! The only downside was the slightly confusing system which absolutely requires a well-labeled trail map. The south trail section was well maintained and relatively easy to navigate with maps and trail signs posted as most intersections; but the north end was pretty jumbled with multiple downed trail signs, missing maps, and a somewhat chaotic number of non-regulation trails that are just as maintained as the real one; leaving me confused and standing in some poor resident's backyard on more than one occasion. Regardless, it was a lovely, if somewhat boilerplate hike. 

This was another Voyage of Discovery for the hiking grandmas today. We'd never been here before, but it looked like a good way to get some miles in close to home.  It's in Urban Hikes Everett. We caught the 830 ferry and were at the TH just a bit after 9. This hike is a basic woods hike, no views, no lake, no river, not much of interest except lots of green foliage. Ceder trees, some Doug, and a few white pines, and underneath lots of ferns, salal and evergreen huckleberry. Evergreen huckleberry loves this kind of woods, and the plants were huge, lush and green. The berries are normally the size of BBs and in dense clusters, a dark purple and appear in the fall. The trail names are descriptive and fun, Spider Webb, Two Kitties, Sleepy Hollow, Wille Coyote and Rocky Road to name a few. Download a map from the Island County Parks website. However, be prepared for a few wrong turns and unmarked intersections. We ended up making a loop twice, getting turned around and doing an unplanned road walk trying to cut from the Putney Woods to the Saratoga Woods. We didn't go quite far enough, circling the Roller Coaster twice and ending up on the road. You want to go up Whispering Pines and take the Coralroot Cutoff to the Saratoga Woods, it is marked quite plainly. In the Metcalf Trust, the Huck Loop just kind of dead ended in salal, so don't bother, take the Salal Loop to North Leg Saratoga. Also the Pteromys trail is also labeled the Flying Squirrel at one point. Anyway, we got over 8 miles and 700 gain, and a good time was had by all. FYI, the loo at the TH was tipped over when we got there and when we came out the service truck was putting another one upright, so hopefully it will stay that way.