Gold Creek Pond — Tuesday, Jul. 7, 2015

Snoqualmie Region > Snoqualmie Pass

Traffic into Seattle saw us with an hour of sitting in our cars so we chose to wait by Gold Creek Pond instead. There were few people there. We had only ever been around the pond in the winter time so this was quite a treat. We walked half way around on the ADA accessible trail and threw our blanket down in some shade under a tree by the water. Much better than traffic:) On this brief, 1 mile hike we counted almost 20 different wildflowers. My favorite thing there was an enormous ant hill, sure to amaze and please young children (and adults like me). Oh yeah, very cool to learn that this pond was a gravel pit back in the 70s when there was I-90 construction going on. The plan all along was to convert it to this beautiful little space.