McLellan Conservation Area — Saturday, Mar. 5, 2016

Eastern Washington > Spokane Area/Coeur d'Alene

Getting to the parking area is a little tricky here, there are two pull-outs that look like they are roads (one is closed and the other is maybe an old logging road?). Don't be fooled, you want the one that is paved briefly before turning into a nice dirt road. There's really not much of a trail to speak of here. The area was previously logged, and the trails are mostly old logging roads that are hard to spot and overgrown. The area has a lot of litter and nearby residents were firing off guns frequently, which caused us to leave sooner than we might have otherwise. Some early spring wild flowers were up including buttercups and Idaho blue-eyed grass.