Olallie State Park - Weeks Falls — Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

We drove out to this hike using the directions posted in the trip report written by Zachary Oliver on July 14, 2007. The directions were good but took us to a parking lot with no trailhead. It was the trail, but there wasn't a wooden information sign. Just a trail leading into the woods. The trail itself is well maintained and pretty. It leads along the South Fork of the Snoqualmie River, and provides great examples of the old-growth forest typical of the North Cascades/Snolqualmie Pass. It ends at a small hydroelectric station alongside the river, at the base of the falls. The trail was almost entirely flat and not at all strenuous. It is great trail for people with physical limitations, like older people or people with disabilities. We, for example, brought our sixty-year-old parents on this hike, and it was a perfect opportunity to expose them to the beauty of the Northwest without the intensity of your typical mountain hike.