Great directions from WTA except it's 212th Way SE. The gate was close but even with a few horse trailers there was room to park. I loved that the trail was marked!! I wish more trails were like that. Lots of loops but we did the 6.5 miles. There is a clean outhouse at the end of the access road and picnic benches. My only concern was all the species of poop we saw on the trail besides horse poop! Never saw any wildlife though. Overall it was a great hike!! Not hard but just a few hills.

This was a nice trail, close to home, with lots of fall color. It has been raining a lot, so there is some mud, and lots of slippery leaves on the trails, but it's not really much of a problem. It stopped raining while I was hiking, but even with the dismal sky, the colors were pretty, and it as quiet.

Next week WTA will start working on the O’Grady Trail in the Green River Natural Area, a work in progress for some time. Today, I explored the whole area. King County has built a rough trail going east, about a mile, leading to a large grassy meadow on the Green River. Here there was a pair of eagles, hoards of sea gulls and tracks on the river bank that were the right size for river otter, but I never saw them. The attraction was spawning salmon. The county has covered the first quarter mile of the trail with rock and gravel and built a new horse bridge. The rest of the trail is gumbo, boot sucking gumbo!!!!! If you explore or work on this trail, pick your foot ware wisely. From the end of the service road, there is an unofficial trail heading west which leads to a popular fishing area. This trail has even worse gumbo. You can not normally drive into the O’Grady area, you must park about a mile away, at the service road gate. The road drops about 500 feet into the river gorge. If you are part of a WTA work party, the gate will be open Tuesday morning and you may drive to the parking area at the end of the road. I confirmed this with the King County employee incharge of trail building and will be there to greet you, and just happed to be there this morning. Getting to this area is a little complicated, see the road description given in the trail work volunteers’ Tab on the WTA site.