Cora Lake via Big Creek Trail — Sunday, Jun. 29, 2025

Don't make the same mistake I did - if you follow the GPS coordinates for arriving at this hike, you will *not* be on this trail.  You will be on the Big Creek trail, which takes you all the way up to a beautiful view of Rainier and Cora Lake, then all the way down to the lake itself, roughly 4.2 miles round-trip.  Beautiful, but too much climbing for 6-year-old legs (at least in our case.)  But if you need your child to nap in the car for 2 hours, this hike will do it. Lesson learned - cross-reference!