I checked out the Bear Ridge Trail for the first time today. It's a moderate workout and a nice section of the park running alongside a creek with a few peek-a-boo views.
The main feature/attraction is "fantastic erratic," a large fern and moss covered glacial boulder - pretty cool! - and there's also a bit of a view here looking towards Tiger Mountain.
I hiked this as a lollipop, starting on Bear Ridge and then connecting up to Shagri La, then Harvey Manning, then looping back down on the West Tibbett's Creek Trail. The trail is in great shape.
A note on parking: I parked at the Talus Bridge Trailhead which is inside the Talus development. It looked like there was just a couple spots available for the public to park by the trailhead but then again, after parking in one of them, I noticed people in a couple of the surrounding houses looking out their windows at me. This made me second guess parking there and consider people in the community might frown on it, I'm not sure ...
I also hiked down to the Bear Ridge Trailhead on Route 900. Here there's also limited parking (space for 3 or 4 cars) but it's outside of the community. You can also easily hike down from the Harvey Manning Trailhead.
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I don’t think it’s not allowed to park on the street in Talus. Whether people like it is a different matter 😂
If you park a little further down by the apartments instead of the houses I doubt anyone would notice as long as you parked on the street and not in any of the lots.
Posted by:
Birb on Feb 01, 2022 08:19 PM
Cool, thanks for clearing that up! Will follow your advice next time.
Posted by:
guff-trek on Feb 01, 2022 08:52 PM