Tumwater Pipeline Trail — Thursday, Jul. 15, 2010

Central Cascades > Stevens Pass - East

Wanted a quick hike my last day in Leavenworth while my wife was bumming around town and figured this would be a nice one. The parking lot has room for about 10 cars and there was no one else there when I arrived @ 9AM on a Thursday. The trail was flat and well maintained, the only problem I ran into was mosquitoes (spent the previous day white water rafting the river and didn't have any problems with bugs so went without any bug spray). Along the way, there are plenty of good vantage spots to sit on a rock and enjoy the river/have a picnic. Only downer is that Highway 2 is always in site when you can see the river. This would be a great hike to take kids on! The description makes it seem that the end of the trail is very apparent, but it wasn't to me, there was a big boulder at a pretty good angle that I didn't risk trying to shimmy across so not sure if that was the end, I had already past the end or if the trail continued past this obstacle.