Nike Horse Trail, Cave Hole, Harvey Manning Trail, Shangri La & Coyote Creek — Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025

Hit up the Cougar Mountain area for a quick walkabout before heading to a concert in the evening.

Started at the Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park trailhead and headed out on the Nike Horse trail to the field that was once Nike Site S-20 before connecting with the Cave Hole trail. 

We totally missed the small cave holes due to all the underbrush, but didn't realize until we were on the By Pass trail, so we didn't go back to look for them. Kept following the trails with our ultimate destination of the Million Dollar Pergola. 

Made it there pretty quickly as all the trails are very well maintained, before doing the customer stop at the "summit" of Cougar Mountain, before taking Shangri-La and Coyote Creek back to the trailhead.

Overall: 4.83 miles, 623' vertical, 1:41:26 total time with breaks