Spencer Island — Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025

This was a nice morning walk with only 15 minutes of travel time to get there. To get there, you need to take the Marine View Dr exit in Everett, then take the left to #529 to Marysville (it used to be a right and may show that on old directions). Or put in Everett Animal Shelter in your GPS, you go right past it to the park.  We parked by the Langus Park boathouse with an easy walk to the restrooms. The entire trail is paved until you get to the Spencer bridge. Past the bridge the once nice trail is overgrown with blackberry bushes, and the graveled path is eroding. Sad. The old loo is also gone, no great loss there. We turned around and walked up to the path leading past the sewage lagoons (not as bad as it sounds) to the end of the paved trail with some nice interpretive signs. Go to the right where the path Ts. Not much in the way of bird life today, but we did see the seal sleeping on a log by the boat launch. The water in the estuary was very low, the tide must have been out. The trails near the treatment plant have been improved over the years, but the trails around the island have been sadly neglected. We did 6.5 miles for #hikeathon.