Beacon Rock State Park - Hamilton Mountain — Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019

Hamilton is always a nice hike and it was again today.  We arrived to the trailhead around 8:15am. There were 5 cars in the parking lot. The hike up was peaceful with little traffic.  We leapfrogged a group of three and a couple, a few times before reaching the summit.  On the way down, we encountered many more people who were heading up, but nothing too crazy.  When we returned to the TH around 11:45am, the parking lot was full with folks driving through asking any and everyone if they were leaving (by my count, the lot holds 44 cars not including the 2 handicapped spaces).  We moved to the upper picnic area to eat lunch, in order to free up a spot at the TH lot.  There were about 15 cars in the upper lot which was being used as overflow parking.