Trail of the Cedars, Linking Trail — Monday, Jul. 10, 2023

Short but sweet hike on the trail of the cedars. The bridge over the Skagit River is fun and has river access below on the south side. lots of signage if you want to learn about the trees on the trail.

there's parking in the town of newhalem, or if you happen to be at newhalem campground, there's a linking trail over from the c loop sites which is how we got there. one caution though if you're coming from the campground-- expect that the trail should be generally flat. when we got to about where we thought the trail of the cedars loop should begin, we briefly followed what we thought was a branch of the loop up a hill... before realizing something was amiss and finding that we had detoured to an evacuation route trail rather than the trail of the cedars loop. oops!