I've driven past Federation Forest State Park many times, but never stopped to check it out until today. What a fantastic little gem! We spent several hours wandering the beautiful trail system that follows the river.
There's signs that the Old Naches Trail to the far West of the park is closed. We decided to ignore the warnings and check it out anyway. This trail is beautiful, but is washed out in several places forcing you to wade through thick mud and water. Unless you want to get muddy, I don't recommend checking this part of the trail out until it's repaired. Also, while my GPS indicated the Old Naches Trail would meet back up with Hwy 410 at it's far Western point to then intersect with the North Trail, we could not locate the connector trail and had to turn back the way we came.
If you do check out Old Naches Trail, see if you can spot Vanessa the gnome (see pic).
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