Trail is in great shape! A few blow downs past the Otter Falls turn off.
Concerning part is that someone built a large A frame with tarps just past otter falls, downhill on the side trail past the boulders.
I didn’t enter it. Be careful out there.
Trip Report
Taylor River - Otter Falls — Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2025
Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area
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Maddy on Taylor River - Otter Falls
Thanks for finding that A frame structure. Hopefully it will be removed soon by Forest service. For some reason the Middle Fork valley is a magnet for creepy people that build illegal structures. On the CCC Trail there was the creepy gingerbread house with creepy child porn in it. Another area off the CCC had a makeshift cabin with plastic tarps on the side filled with rotting canned food. Some type of survivalist nonsense.
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Maddy on Apr 30, 2025 07:35 PM
mato on Taylor River - Otter Falls
Probably because it's within thirty miles of millions of people, and a certain percentage of them are going to have dreams of building a shelter/shed/cabin/creepy gingerbread house in the woods.
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mato on Apr 30, 2025 07:58 PM
I ❤️ Trees on Taylor River - Otter Falls
Yikes!
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I ❤️ Trees on Apr 30, 2025 08:11 PM
ALW Hiker on Taylor River - Otter Falls
That must be a relatively recent "structure". I was down that trail to the river last year in the spring and it wasn't there.
Thanks for posting it! You may want to send a note to the Snoqualmie Ranger District if you haven't already: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/mbs/offices/snoqualmie-ranger-district-north-bend-office.
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ALW Hiker on Apr 30, 2025 10:12 PM