We walked the Lewis River Trail upstream about 3.5 miles from where road 9039 crosses the Lewis River Bridge. Trail is in great shape with nice campsites along the way. The Bolt camp shelter is in excellent condition. The Lewis River is really beautiful, as is the forest along this trail.

The Lewis river trail from the Lower falls campground to Curly creek is a beautifull area wandering up and down mountains with old and new growth forest. The trail is moderately maintained with only a very few blow-downs on the trail. In addition at approx 3 miles in from curly creek is a very substantial mud/rock slide covering the trail and a few miles furthur up is a huge mud slide that appears to be old and is now completely clear. The creeks that you encounter are all easily crossed with just slightly wet feet. My trip was a MT Bike down from Lower falls, during the trip the trail was in great shape with only a couple of areas marred by the less environmentally conscious in the back country.

A quick late afternoon jaunt along this trail shows that it's in great shape, with repairs done early this spring holding up and working well. There is one small area that still is a bit damp from mystery seepage but otherwise the trail was very nice with only one other car in the parking lot and one other person seen on the trail. Although this trail is sort of in the Mt St. Helens area, no monument pass is needed, but a trail park pass is.