It’s the first day of Fall, so hiking we will go! We changed our original plans and searched through our saved hikes in our WTA backpack to see where we wanted to go that was new. We settled on rock trail at Larrabee State Park and we are so glad we did. This might be our new favorite trail!
Road: rough in places. Mostly near the beginning and the end. Easy to navigate but the shadows from trees hide the few potholes. So take it slow.
We parked at the Cyrus Overlook Parking lot and hiked down rock trail. We counted 218 steps on the way down. A few trees starting to yellow, but mostly you are in luscious, green forest with lots of moss. We love rocks. Any trail with rocks is amazing. Boy did we find some amazing rocks to climb and look at. The rock features here are the highlight of the trail. Take your time in this area so you can really enjoy their stunning beauty. The trail has one tree down towards the bottom of rock trail and few areas where the ferns and grasses are encroaching the trail. Overall in great shape! Once we finished rock trail, we hiked over to Lost Lake. I see why it is “lost lake.” My littlest asked if we were lost because there was no lake. We were also the first on the spur trail to Lost Lake, so we encountered all the spider webs. We eventually found the rock overlook of the lake and did some water coloring and had lunch. We also thought we heard other hikers but it turned out to be our echos. This was fun for the kids to hear. We only saw 1 hiker and 2 horseback riders the entire 2.5 hours we were there. Came back the way we came down and while it seemed like it would super hard, the mix of stairs and flats were nice. Much easier than a straight up. I highly recommend rock trail. I think the other lakes near Larrabee are better lakes to visit than Lost Lake. Next time we’ll probably include Fragrance Lake in our trek instead of rock trail.
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