Great shape. The only obstacle this time of year is the beautiful leafy carpet obscuring tripping hazards. Good smells, pretty colors and unique (to me) frog sounds.

Mushrooms and a carpet of fall color abound right right now. Trails were in great shape with no blow downs from recent storms. The flush bathrooms were appreciated. While parking was busy the lot wasn't full and the trails didn't feel busy at all.

There are several trees down after last weekend’s big storm, but all are easy to climb over or go around. I started in the main parking lot, took the Trillium trail north to the connector trail east to the Pipeline trail (many big trees down in both of these sections), and back via Powerline to the parking lot. I still had some time so I wandered over to the Tree Frog loop and there is a tree across the trail there as well. The Parks department is already on it, and there was a crew out with chainsaws, but there are also many other city parks with downed trees from the storm. Other than that the Watershed was beautiful and the fall color is lovely today! 

Quick morning walk in the crisp air.  Trails are in great condition, easy to follow.  Fall colors abound. I decided to write this just to let hikers know there is a downed tree across the upper most NW corner of the Trillium trail, but not hard to navigate.

Walked the Redmond Watershed trails this morning in a big, messy clockwise loop from the northern parking lot.  Parking is free and relatively plentiful at both the main southern lot and the northern lot.  Full restrooms were open and in good condition at the south lot, no facilities at the north lot.  No pets (except horses) allowed at this property as per normal.  Some of the trails also allow mountain bikes (only saw one today.)  The trails are in great shape with the only issue being dodging the occasional pony doody as to be expected with equestrian usage.  The small paved trail from the south lot to Frog Pond is ADA accessible if your party has folks in wheel or power chairs.   

The forest here remains surprisingly green still given our dry summer.  Several of the small creeks still even have running water in them.  Quite a bit of wildlife out today - woodpeckers, lots of little brown douglas squirrels, towhee, flicker, a bunch of little forest song birds, quite a few little tree frogs chirping, but the really cool surprise were otters in the pond at the long since gone Siler’s Mill location in the northeast corner of the property.  I stopped and chatted with one as she was eating what appeared to be a salamander for breakfast, but my otter is a bit rusty and I must have said something to offend as it started growling at me and I made my exit.  A super nice little walk if you are in the area made even more special with the addition of otters.