Hiking Guide
WTA's hiking guide is the most comprehensive database of hikes in Washington, and comprises content written by local hiking experts and user submitted information. All data is vetted by WTA staff. This resource is made possible by the donations of WTA members.
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Results List
4214 HikesTiger Mountain Trail North
Issaquah Alps > Tiger Mountain
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Length
- 15.5 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 2,400 feet
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Highest Point
- 2,500 feet
Hike along the northern half of the main Tiger Mountain Trail, the TMT. If you like, make it a shorter hike and turn around at any of a number of pleasant stopping spots, or perhaps hike on as far as Custer's Bridge, one of the most remote places in the Tigers.
Ted Olson Nature Preserve Trail
Puget Sound and Islands > Seattle-Tacoma Area
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Length
- 0.6 miles, roundtrip
This hike on Bainbridge Island is a great option for a short stroll through the woods.
Swinomish Channel Loop Trail
Puget Sound and Islands
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Elevation Gain
- 0 feet
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Highest Point
- 0 feet
This route along the Swinomish Channel is on private land. The public is asked to refrain from hiking here.
Starvation Creek Falls
Southwest Washington > Columbia River Gorge - OR
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Length
- 0.2 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 0 feet
A delightful little waterfall tucked off of scenic Interstate 84, Starvation Creek State Park is also the jumping-off point for a handful of other popular hikes in the Columbia River Gorge.
Columbia Hills State Park - Stacker Butte
Southwest Washington > Columbia River Gorge - WA
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Length
- 5.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 1,150 feet
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Highest Point
- 3,200 feet
If your car can take the chassis-rattling drive to the Stacker Butte trailhead, you'll be rewarded with one of the most gratifying views-per-mile hikes in Washington. The Columbia Hills Natural Area Preserve boasts spreading views of the east side of the Columbia River Gorge, both in Washington and Oregon, and provides one of the only protected areas for houndstongue hawkweed and Idaho fescue grasslands. These protected plants need mininmal disturbance, so it's especially important to stay on trail and four-legged hiking companions have to stay home from this hike.
Square Lake Park
Puget Sound and Islands > Seattle-Tacoma Area
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Length
- 1.2 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 0 feet
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Highest Point
- 72 feet
A local part in Port Orchard, Square Lake has a fishing pond, picnic opportunities and the chance to get a breath of fresh air close to home.
Spencer Spit
Puget Sound and Islands > San Juan Islands
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Length
- 2.0 miles of trails
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Elevation Gain
- 60 feet
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Highest Point
- 60 feet
Spencer Spit State Park is located on the northeast corner of Lopez Island in the San Juan Islands. A campground sits at the northern edge of the park. The network of hiking trails loops around the edge of the park, heads along the edge of a lagoon and extends out onto the spit.
Bluff Trail
Southwest Washington > Lewis River Region
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Length
- 4.4 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 1,900 feet
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Highest Point
- 3,500 feet
Hike a steep and sometimes difficult to follow trail to where it intersects the Lewis River Trail a half mile downstream of Forest Road 90 near Crab Creek.
Snider Ridge
Olympic Peninsula > Northern Coast
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Length
- 11.4 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 2,340 feet
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Highest Point
- 3,340 feet
The Snider Ridge Trail is part of a trail network that runs along the ridge just north of Highway 101 and east of Lake Crescent. Two trailheads access the trail: the Kloshe Nantich trailhead on the west, and the Mount Muller trailhead on the east.
Sleepy Hollow Trail
Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal
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Length
- 16.6 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 2,000 feet
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Highest Point
- 2,950 feet
Hike along an old road being converted to trail in Olympic National Park.
Scatter Creek
Olympic Peninsula > Olympia
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Length
- 4.75 miles of trails
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Elevation Gain
- 0 feet
By combining rare prairie wetlands, a large forested area, and an old historic building all in 960 acres, Scatter Creek has attractions for everyone.
Sather Park
Olympic Peninsula > Northern Coast
Sather Park is a small park on Morgan Hill in the City of Port Townsend. It is a green space in an otherwise residential neighborhood.
Rain Shadow Loop
Olympic Peninsula > Northern Coast
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Length
- 0.5 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 170 feet
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Highest Point
- 6,007 feet
A short half-mile hike, the Rain Shadow Loop takes you to the top of Blue Mountain. Views of the Cascades, Vancouver Island and the Strait of Juan De Fuca, Gray Wolf Ridge, and so much more await you here.
Pickhandle Gap Loop
Mount Rainier Area > Chinook Pass - Hwy 410
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Length
- 8.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 2,000 feet
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Highest Point
- 6,200 feet
This is a great loop which combines everything great about hiking at Crystal, while staying away from crowds and out of the ski area.
Nick's Lagoon
Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal
Nick’s Lagoon is a small greenspace managed by Kitsap County Parks. The lagoon sits in the nook of Seabeck Bay.
Ned Hill
Olympic Peninsula > Northern Coast
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Length
- 2.2 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 900 feet
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Highest Point
- 3,469 feet
Here's a good training hike to the site of a former fire lookout. You'll get a workout in heading through the tangle of salal, Oregon grape, and imposing rhododenrons. There's not much of a view from the top anymore, since it hasn't been used as a lookout in decades, but it's still worth a visit, particularly if you need a leg-stretcher or you're in the area.
Maple Hollow Park
Olympic Peninsula > Kitsap Peninsula
With one to two miles of nice forest and beach hiking, this park features easy trails for morning jaunts, afternoon excursions, and evening strolls.
Lower Pete's Creek
Olympic Peninsula > Pacific Coast
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Length
- 2.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 1,000 feet
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Highest Point
- 1,500 feet
The Lower Pete's Creek trail starts on the same side of the road as the parking area and privy. The Pete’s Creek trail to Colonel Bob is on the opposite side of the road, just behind the “Pete’s Creek Trail” sign. They’re easy to tell apart because Lower Pete's Creek starts flat, and the Pete's Creek trail to Colonel Bob begins climbing right away.
Living Legacy Interpretive Trail
Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal
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Length
- 1.5 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 125 feet
Visitors to the Hamma Hamma Campground will attest to the delightful Living Legacy Interpretive Trail. The 1.5 mile trail tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps through interpretive signs and photographs along the way.
Lightning Peak
Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal
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Length
- 8.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 4,100 feet
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Highest Point
- 4,654 feet
Lightning Peak is a Class 3 and involves exposed scrambling. Gear and experience recommended.
Lena Lake - Valley of Silent Men Snowshoe
Olympic Peninsula
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Length
- 10.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 2,000 feet
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Highest Point
- 2,800 feet
A quiet hike through a still old-growth forested gully near Lena Lake.
Lake James
Mount Rainier Area > NW - Carbon River/Mowich
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Length
- 22.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 3,450 feet
The way to Lake James offers a myriad of experiences, from deep rainforest to the high country of Mount Rainier National Park. Undertake an ambitious dayhike, or be more leisurely about it and make it a backpacking trip.
Lake Aldwell Overlook Trail
Olympic Peninsula > Northern Coast
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Length
- 1.4 miles of trails
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Elevation Gain
- 50 feet
With the Elwha Dam gone and the landscape re-sculpted to approximate historic contours, the gravel access road to Elwha Dam has opened to non-motorized travel. There's also a very short trail leaving from the parking area to two observation areas.
Klapatche Park
Mount Rainier Area > NW - Carbon River/Mowich
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Length
- 21.4 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 3,300 feet
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Highest Point
- 6,000 feet
The Wonderland Trail has been described as magical, hiking through a wispy-clouded August sky to the many glaciers, river valleys and high alpine meadows all while traveling through the through Rainier's backcountry. Klapatche Park will give you a chance to experience the Wonderland Trail with only 21 miles of hiking.
Kennedy Creek Natural Area Preserve
Olympic Peninsula > Olympia
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Length
- 9.0 miles of trails
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Elevation Gain
- 420 feet
Home to a small trail system and made accessible thanks to Taylor Shellfish and Green Diamond, in partnership with a local nonprofit and Department of Natural Resources, Kennedy Creek is a nice walk where, in fall, you can experience spawning salmon up close.
Illahee State Park
Olympic Peninsula > Kitsap Peninsula
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Length
- 0.5 miles of trails
Find this tiny gem of a state park on the Kitsap Peninsula, tucked between Bainbridge Island and Bremerton. Vistors here will find prime beachside meandering and a relaxing atmosphere, enhanced by the dense forest typical of land in the Puget Sound area.
Hilburn Preserve
Olympic Peninsula > Olympia
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Length
- 2.0 miles of trails
Meandering along Goldsborough Creek through 9.4 acre Hilburn Preserve, the trail follows the water from clay cliffs to muddy banks. The river’s edge is lined with rows of bare white alder trunks in the winter or bright green foliage in the summer, and the surrounding forest is made up of a mixture of coniferous and deciduous trees, a range of fern species, and epiphytes blending from one type to the next.
Green Mountain - Davis Trail
Olympic Peninsula > Kitsap Peninsula
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Length
- 4.0 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 120 feet
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Highest Point
- 800 feet
This trails is a relatively flat path paralleling Gold Creek in the Green Mountain State Forest, a dynamic working forest that is certainly a land of many uses. The trails are open to hikers, mountain bikers and horseback riders.
Foothills Trails
Olympic Peninsula > Northern Coast
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Length
- 11.0 miles of trails
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Elevation Gain
- 370 feet
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Highest Point
- 2,120 feet
The Foothills Trail System sits just south of Port Angeles and west of Hurricane Ridge Road. This patch of DNR land is a working forest interlaced with an 11-mile trail system that is open to hikers, mountain bikers, horseback riders and off road vehicles.
Evergreen State College - Organic Farm Trail
Olympic Peninsula > Olympia
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Length
- 0.8 miles, roundtrip
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Elevation Gain
- 60 feet
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Highest Point
- 230 feet
This trail at the Evergreen State College leads to the college’s organic farm. Take a short hike through the forest to the small-scale organic farm.