Best Easy Day Hikes Seattle

by Allen Cox

Overview

Make Adventure Your StoryTM

DREAM IT Best Easy Day Hikes Seattle, Second Edition includes concise descriptions and detailed maps for twenty easy-to-follow trails, for an accessible range of abilities.

LOOK INSIDE TO FIND

• Casual hikes to full-day adventures
• After-dinner strolls to full-day hikes
• Hikes for everyone, including families
• Mile-by-mile directions and clear trail maps
• GPS coordinates

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493053742
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2021
Series:	Best Easy Day Hikes Series
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Allen Cox is Editor-in-Chief of Northwest Travel Magazine and a freelance travel and lifestyle writer whose work appears in regional, national and international publications. Committed to excellence in travel and lifestyle journalism, Allen serves on the Board of Directors of International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association and is the founding chair of that organization's Awards Committee. He is also co-chair of Pacific NW Travel Writers Conference (Travel & Words conferences), an annual professional development and networking event held in the Pacific Northwest connecting writers, editors and destination marketers. Allen lives in Tacoma, Washington.

Table of Contents

Overview Map vi

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 1

The Lay of the Land-and Water 1

Seattle-Area Boundaries and Corridors 2

Weather 2

Wildlife 3

Be Prepared 4

Zero Impact 5

Land Management 6

Public Transportation 7

How to Use This Book 8

Hike Selection 8

Difficulty Ratings 8

Trail Finder 10

Map Legend 11

The Hikes

1 Myrtle Edwards Park-Elliott Bay Park 12

2 Alki Trail 16

3 Camp Long 20

4 Seward Park Loop 24

5 Volunteer Park 27

6 Green Lake 31

7 Discovery Park Loop Trail 35

8 Cheshiahud Lake Union Loop 39

9 Union Bay Natural Area 43

10 Washington Park Arboretum Loop Trail 46

11 Magnuson Park 50

12 Lakeridge Park (Deadhorse Canyon) 54

13 Sammamish River-Burke-Gilman Trails: Bothell Landing 57

14 Soos Creek Trail 62

15 Pioneer Park 66

16 Mercer Slough Nature Park 70

17 Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park: Red Town-Wildside Trails 74

18 Squak Mountain 78

19 Tiger Mountain: Around the Lake Trail 82

20 Preston-Snoqualmie Trail: Lake Alice-Snoqualmie Falls Overlook 86

Clubs and Trail Groups 90

About the Author 92

Editorial Reviews

"With 20 hikes within a 30-mile drive of downtown Seattle, Best Easy Day Hikes Seattle, 2nd Edition, explores some of the best-known hikes while leading hikers to lesser known trailheads. Some of the Trail Finder hikes include Best Hikes along Puget Sound (Myrtle Edwards Park, Alki Trail, Union Bay Natural Area and others); Best Hikes in Urban Green Spaces (Discovery Park Loop Trail, Soos Creek Trail, Washington Park Arboretum Loop Trails, and others); and Best Hikes in the Cascade Foothills (Tiger Mountain, Preston-Snoqualmie and two others).

There are no hikes that need a ferry crossing and all directions to trailheads are given from either downtown Seattle or from Interstate 5, Interstate 90 and S.R. 520.

Each hike description includes mile-by-mile distance, difficulty and surface, best time of year to go, canine compatibility, and other trail uses."

—Carolyn Price, Outdoors NW

From the Publisher