Snoqualmie Lake — Saturday, May. 10, 2025

The Middle Fork road gets very potholed in the last quarter mile before the Snoqualmie Lake trailhead, it might be a bit challenging for a low clearance car. The creek crossings are all rock hops, no wet feet needed. My little 20 lb dog made it through all of them fine but a timid dog might find a couple of them challenging. There were maybe six blowdowns that we needed to crawl over or around. One I had to carry the dog over. Otter Falls is spectacular right now with the snowmelt. At the lake there are 3 possible campsites, one right near the outlet stream in the left, could fit two tents, a nice group site at the waters edge with a potty across the trail, and one marginal site on the right a bit further down. They were all full by 1 pm. There might be others that are buried in snow but we didn’t see any. We explored further to Deer Lake and the views down to
Snoqualmie Lake were nice. The snow got deeper at Deer Lake and it looked like people had gone further but were postholing so we turned around. It was a nice quick getaway.