Another successful Chuckanut Tour in the books.  12.5 miles.

Parked at the main Lost Lake TH parking - toilets clean and stocked.

Took Frangrance Lake road uphill, turned right onto Burnout Road.

Reached the top of Burnout Knob in 4 miles total, spectacular views from this recovering clearcut.

Kept going, connecting to the S. Lost Lake trail

Left uphill onto the Rock Trail, reaching the Larrabee Overlook before heading down the Ridge Trail, then doubled back onto the Fragrance Lake Trail.

Took Fragrance Lake Trail past the lake and down to the interurban.  A left turn at .2 miles later back at the car.

Great loop, no repeats!  It's a long 4 miles to Burnout knob but it's worth it.

Cleator Road leading to the Cyrus Gates Overlook is closed for road work from 12-21 November per posted signage.

It’s the first day of Fall, so hiking we will go! We changed our original plans and searched through our saved hikes in our WTA backpack to see where we wanted to go that was new. We settled on rock trail at Larrabee State Park and we are so glad we did. This might be our new favorite trail! 

Road: rough in places. Mostly near the beginning and the end. Easy to navigate but the shadows from trees hide the few potholes. So take it slow.

We parked at the Cyrus Overlook Parking lot and hiked down rock trail. We counted 218 steps on the way down. A few trees starting to yellow, but mostly you are in luscious, green forest with lots of moss. We love rocks. Any trail with rocks is amazing. Boy did we find some amazing rocks to climb and look at. The rock features here are the highlight of the trail. Take your time in this area so you can really enjoy their stunning beauty.  The trail has one tree down towards the bottom of rock trail and few areas where the ferns and grasses are encroaching the trail. Overall in great shape! Once we finished rock trail, we hiked over to Lost Lake. I see why it is “lost lake.” My littlest asked if we were lost because there was no lake. We were also the first on the spur trail to Lost Lake, so we encountered all the spider webs. We eventually found the rock overlook of the lake and did some water coloring and had lunch. We also thought we heard other hikers but it turned out to be our echos. This was fun for the kids to hear. We only saw 1 hiker and 2 horseback riders the entire 2.5 hours we were there. Came back the way we came down and while it seemed like it would super hard, the mix of stairs and flats were nice. Much easier than a straight up. I highly recommend rock trail. I think the other lakes near Larrabee are better lakes to visit than Lost Lake. Next time we’ll probably include Fragrance Lake in our trek instead of rock trail. 

I took the rock trail from the overlook down to Lost lake to fish. The trail is good but it's kind of eerie early in the morning when it's windy and dark. At one point near the bottom I heard some cries that sounded like maybe a baby animal like a cougar, but then I heard some trees moving in the breeze, so maybe it was just the wind moving a tree but it didn't sound like it.

Then when I was at the lake I heard a burst of gunshots and trees crashing. I though it was a UFO beaming a bigfoot down or something, but I think someone shot a tree for some reason because there's a bunch of downed trees there. I rafted and fished and caught a few and didn't see another person until I was halfway back up the trail.

The road leading to the Rock Trail trailhead is dirt. If you go slow, all cars can make it up but there were some minor ruts to drive around. 

Seeing as though you drive up for a bit to get to the trailhead, it's no wonder the trail goes down. I thought it was really cool that this was one of the WTA signature projects. The rocks along the trail are really neat how they have the divots and holes, etc. I saw but did not explore the cave that is mentioned in hike description. The path leading up to it is a bit overgrown and I could only imagine that some animal is using it as a home so didn't want to go sticking my head in there anyway. 

After Rock Trail, we turned left and headed down to Lost lake. We walked along the lake trail for a bit to a rock opening where there is a small creek. Then we turned around vs continuing on due to time constraints. The trailhead map didn't show the trail continuing much further but my caltopo map did and I could see the trail continuing on. Not sure if the continuation was new since the trailhead map was created? 

Climbing the stairs back up breaks a sweat but nothing too crazy. Def a good workout though. Nice to see the rocks from the other direction as well. There were several other trails off of Rock Trail that would have been fun to explore if we had had more time. This is such a great area to hike in!