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Interurban Trail — Feb. 28, 2025

Puget Sound and Islands > Bellingham Area
  • Hiked with a dog

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Very nice flat trail. Hiked from fairhaven park to arroyo park and back with a dog.

Interurban Trail, Hoag's Pond Trail — Dec. 2, 2024

Puget Sound and Islands > Bellingham Area
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Ups n Downs
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  • Hiked with kids

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A nice little family stroll on a sunny afternoon. We parked at the Padden Creek lot on Old Fairhaven Parkway.  We started by taking the Interurban Trail west to Fairhaven Park and made a lollipop loop along Padden Creek.  Along the way we saw a pileated woodpecker and quite a few spawned out salmon.
 
Back at the junction for the parking lot we continued east on the sidewalk to connect with the south trending leg of the Interurban Trail paralleling 24th street.  At the junction where turning right you enter the Hundred Acre Wood, we instead turned left and crossed 24th to a trail that traverses a hill and dropping to Hoag's Pond circumnavigates it.  You can return on a different spur along the outlet creek and loop back a short distance along the street or return the way you came.  We checked in on my daughter's geocache 'Hoag Heaven' that she placed in 2023 and there were 26 logged visits and a small car someone left behind in the spirit of 'take something, leave something'.
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  • Fall foliage
  • Hiked with kids

4 people found this report helpful

 

Grab your rain boots and get outside! It was a lovely stroll through Hundred Acre Wood. We looked back around on the Interurban Trail to Padden Creek which was flowing! This was our first time wandering around Hundred Acre Wood and there is still a lot of lovely tree colors. A few blow downs in the main loop. 

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Beware of: trail conditions

8 people found this report helpful

 

A very nice hike with a friend today at Larrabee State Park.

Interurban Trail is clear, wide, and flat with some fallen leaves on it. Pretty, otherwise nothing to report.

Fragrance Lake Trail is a sweet little trail, a bit narrower than Interurban. Steeper, too, and quite narrow (maybe more like a footpath?) on the loop around the lake. Fragrance Lake is calm and quiet, though hard to get a good view of from the trail.

Double Diamond Trail is very steep! Its a downhill mountain bike/hiker trail, with a crucial split where it's hiker-only to the right as you head uphill. This section is called Chinscraper and hiking it it is clear why. Was good cardio keeping up with my friend on this section.

The connection between Rock Trail and Double Diamond was very nice, with some clouds coming in and cooling things off. Also provided some great photo ops.

Rock Trail is so lovely. The steps make for great photography and the huge rocks here are incredible. It had been a long time since I'd been here and it was really nice to see it again.

North Lost Lake is where things get mucky. The roadwalk is fine despite some downed trees, but closer to the lake there are sections of "trail" that feel more like swamp. I sank into my ankles at one point! Had lunch at the overlook of Lost Lake - the trees across the way are a nice variety and the lake is, again, quiet and calm and mostly hard to see from trail.

South Lost Lake is quieter, though the open forest in this section and the ferns were so nice! Soon we came along to the road to return to the parking lot off 11

This is a great 11.5mile route!

Photo 1 - Variations of this view on the loop today
Photo 2 - big rocks
Photo 3 - pretty little grotto
Photo 4 - Also saw two gorgeous waterfalls today!

Interurban Trail — Sep. 23, 2024

Puget Sound and Islands > Bellingham Area
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3 people found this report helpful

 

Trail is well maintained and easy to access. Not to many people were out on it.