Spencer Island — Saturday, Mar. 24, 2012

Puget Sound and Islands > Seattle-Tacoma Area

My son and I have wanted to try this one out for some time and today seemed like the perfect day. The parking lot for the trailhead is located next to the Everett wastewater treatment plant. After being treated to an aromatic bouquet, follow the short gravel road to a bridge and the trailhead. Here is a link to a map of the trails: http://www.co.snohomish.wa.us/documents/Departments/Parks/img/spencer.pdf From the trailhead you can choose to either go north(left) into Washington DFW land or go south(right) and stay on Snohomish County property. Today we chose to go south and follow the Cross Levee trail across the park. The trails in this part of the park are wide and either gravel or grass covered. There are a couple of boardwalks that lead to some viewing areas that provide views of the mountains to the north and east. Once we arrived on the east side of the park, we decided to explore the area to the north and follow the trail in that direction. The trail in this part of the park is very overgrown and not very well maintained. My six year old had a hard time navigating the trail with the brush in his way, which was about as tall as him in places. There were also a couple of blowdowns on the trail in this part of the park. We eventually turned around and headed to the southern part of the park. The trails in the southern part of the park are wide and well maintained. There are places with nice views and a few bridges along the trail that offer good viewpoints for scenery and bird watching. We saw birds of all kinds today including robins and a couple of larger birds (maybe herons or cranes). We will visit this area again, maybe when things start to green up a bit.