Both the North and South units of the Lake Wenatchee State Park have great hiking trails -- and XC and snowshoe trails in the winter -- as noted in the other trip reports, however we'd like to sound a note of caution about one part of the trail system.
Several years ago, we tried the South unit snowshoe loop, traveling clockwise from the boat launch down the Wenatchee River to the confluence with Nason Creek but lost the trail between that point and the Nason Creek campground. We persevered, bushwhacked, and eventually found the campground and continued the loop back to the beginning.
Last week we tried walking the loop to see if we could find that part of the snowshoe trail when there was no snow on the ground. We found the current State Park winter map online and confirmed that the trail was still shown on the map. We reviewed the sign-board map at the boat launch trail head and confirmed that the trail was shown there as well. We looked at Gaia, and it showed the trail. So, we headed down the hiker trail to the Nason Creek confluence and turned off onto a rougher trail marked with blue ribbons (the code for the snowshoe trail) where the snowshoe trail should have turned off and where Gaia said the trail turned off but after about 200 feet, that trail simply disappeared in a tangle of downed trees and vine maple.
Conclusion: That part of the snowshoe and hiker loop trail between the confluence of the Wenatchee River and Nason Creek and the Nason Creek campground DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE. Avoid it, unless you love bushwhacking through vine maple! (Not sure how or if the State Park will resurrect it for winter.)
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