Ashland Lakes — Monday, May. 28, 2018

North Cascades > Mountain Loop Highway

Description says that this road is passable by a “regular” vehicle and that is not true! We had to use the 4x4 on our truck and still had a bit of trouble. Definitely recommend driving an SUV or truck up there, it’s quite rugged! There was still a little snow on the trail but most of it was easily passable with decent boots. All three lakes were beautiful and the hike itself was very easy! My step tracker counted 5.5 miles round trip. I went in the middle of the week and only saw one other person up there, although there isn’t quite parking for 10 cars as is described above.