Devil's Dome Loop — Friday, Jul. 11, 2025

Did a 3 day 2 night CW Devils Dome loop.

Day 1

Canyon Creek TH to Devils Junction Camp

As others have mentioned, the bridge here is out, at the east bank TH the bridge is in. Still, I decided to start from here to save 3 miles at the back end. The ford is generally pretty mild-I stashed sandals for it. 

The Ruby creek trail is terrible, basically abandoned. Highly overgrown, washed out and with ample blowdown to cross. Would definitely suggest doing this section early in the trail, finishing with it would have been frustrating. 

The east bank trail on the other hand is great. Beautiful views of Ross lake and you huge the cliff on old reinforced trails.

Devils Junction hiker/stock camps are mediocre. Highly suggest winning the lottery and booking Rainbow or another Boat camp.

Day 2 Devils Junction to Devils Park

The climb to devils dome is long and incredibly overgrown. You are pushing through face heigh bush for about 4 miles and 4000ft until you reach around 6000 elevation. At around 6400ft is the last good water source until Anacortes crossing, seem like it will last for a couple weeks at least. It is highly visible right next to the trail, suggest filling up here. 

There are 2 clear campsites before you summit devil's, both looked good and close to water. The camp on top of devils was beautiful but exposed and swarming with highly aggressive mosquitoes, blackfly's and hornets.

There is some significant blowdown on the trail to Anacortes, but its manageable with clear bypasses.  There's also dry campsites every mile or so almost everywhere logically you would want one, although they all shared the bug swarms of devil's dome.

North fork devils creek is flowing strongly, should have water for at least a month. It also tasted extra delicious, not sure why. 

Its about a 1600ft climb from the creek to Jackita ridge including a couple switchbacks up a talus scree field which was difficult at this point in the day, but really not technically challenging. 

Finally the walk down to Devils park through wild flower and heather fields was spectacular. I chose camped near the shelter at the park which has a tree across it and a handy hammer for field repairs. The nearby water source was decently flowing, you can skip the mosquito ponds farther uphill.

Day 3 Devils Park to Canyon Creek TH

Pretty easy hike out from devils park, only about 300ft of gain. McMillan park has probably another 10 campsites or so. You have the option to add crater mountain, however I skipped it this time. Overally, a great trip.