CCC Road: Blowout Creek Trailhead — Saturday, Apr. 21, 2018

This is a great hike for a couple of reasons. First, I came up Middle Fork on Saturday and as usual there were quite a bit a cars for the more popular hikes and in the entire 9 miles I walked I only encountered 4 people! Second, it's very easy. I walked with my two dogs off leash and it's a well maintained flat trail. Third, yes you are walking through second growth forest but it's still a walk in the woods. There are numerous spots with great views of nearby mountains, cool streams and mini waterfalls where my dogs would splash and swim. This trail guide says you will see old growth but I took the route described and all I saw was stumps. It's still a very uncrowded, peaceful, beautiful trail in the woods! The one thing is that this time of year there were a couple of stream crossings that would be difficult to get over with kids or as an adult with out getting wet. My dogs had no trouble getting across and I didn't either really but some places took a little more planning so my feet didn't get soaked. There was one area with some bugs but nothing too bad.