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PostWed Aug 04, 2010 1:51 pm 
Official Sites - source of much of the information here Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest - Alerts and Notices Road and Trail Conditions Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest - Current Conditions Olympic National Forest - new Current Conditions page is now available Olympic National Park - Current Road Conditions hotline 360-565-3131 Mt Rainier National Park - Current Road Conditions hotline 360-569-2211 press 2 then (2 for current road conditions or 3 for anticipated opening/construction projects) Gifford Pinchot National Forest - Alerts & Notices Washington State DOT - Mountain Passes Naches Ranger District - Conditions Wenatchee River Ranger District - Conditions In general, post in alphabetical order by common road name within each section unless there are more natural geographical groupings (e.g. North Fork XXX, South Fork XXX) Mount Rainier Corral Pass (FS 7174) Closed since 2015 fire, campground area high severity fire with many hazardous trees. Chinook Pass (SR 410) website Mowich Lake Road (SR 165) Mowich Lake, Spray Park, Echo/Observation Rock Typically opens in July Stevens Canyon Road Grand Park back door, Huckleberry Creek Rd 73, Was in good condition 2023 all of the way to Lonesome Lake I-90 Talapus (9030), Mason Lake (9031)? Cold Creek Road (9070) to Windy Pass and PCT 7-22-2022 Drove to Mt Catherine TH in Subaru Forester. Several sections of serious potholes. Two sections with parallel gullies along the length of the road. Once the fall rains start those gullies will collect water and I suspect serious road damage will result. Joey Tinkham (55), Good condition as of Fall 2023. May have logging traffic from Hansen Creek in 2024. Garcia (9020) ? Middle Fork Snoqualmie Road (FS 56) Mailbox TH, Taylor River TH, Dingford Creek TH, Goldmyer Hot Springs 05/15/23. Paved section open. Gravel section to Dingford trailhead is very rough.The Goldmyer Access Report usually has updated road conditions. [b]North Fork Snoqualmie Road (FS 57) Bare, Dog, Goat, Phelps, ... 10/01/2014 A $75 permit is required to access Hancock Timber lands along the North Fork road. The road is public and you can drive through Hancock lands to reach FS areas for free, but you can't park and climb Fuller or visit other attractions on their land without the permit. Rocky Run (FS 4832) The spur (136 per Google Maps) to the backdoor TH is extra brushy but save for a nasty water channel right at the beginning and some moderate rutting about halfway in is still more or less drivable. Extra clearance would be good, don't take a car you don't want to add pinstripes to. Teanaway North Fork Teanaway road (9737) Teanaway Middle Fork (NFD 113) Jack Creek Road (9738) Stafford Creek Road 9703 Beverly turnpike road (1391) (7.28.2021, Joey) Two bad spots washing out. We were very careful and did OK in a Subaru Forester. Low clearance might not make it. Jungle Creek (FS 9701) Teanaway Butte, Way Creek trail, Jungle Creek trail "Road Closed" sign at the beginning of the road. Cle Elum Trails - road closures - [*][b]Taneum - Manastash Area
  • FSR 3350 - South Cle Elum Ridge Road
  • FSR 33 - Taneum Road
  • FSR 3100 - Manastash Road
  • FSR 3120 near 3100 Junction. [/b]
  • FSR 3100 near Buck Meadows.
  • FSR 4517-117 - Granite Creek Road.
[*]Cle Elum Valley - FSR 4308 - French Cabin at 120 Junction. [*]Cle Elum Valley Road NF-4330 [*]Swauk and Liberty FSR 9707 - Pole Patch Road - two areas - First near spur 115, the second is near 4WD319. [*]Red Top Road [/list] [b]Teanaway Ridge/Jack Creek (FS 9738) ? Mountain Loop Mountain Loop Highway, Likely to melt out by late May 2023 Green Mtn Road (FS 41) - Tupso Pass, Three Fingers, Closed @ mile 8.6 due to damage to South Fork Canyon Creek bridge. No time line for repairs. Approx 10 miles to trail head @ Tupso Pass FS 4110, Green Mtn., Pot holed..more like craters. 6/4/14 FS 4111, Canyon Lake, Closed at mile 0 due to wash out. 6/4/14 FS 42, Mt Pilchuck, reconstructed 2023 North Fork Sauk Road (FS 49), 4096 Bedal Creek High clearance recommended, brushed out. Call the Darrington Ranger District at 360-436-1155 for current information Segelsen Road (FS 18), Call the Darrington Ranger District at 360-436-1155 for current information. www.fs.usda.gov/mbs Pugh (2095), Closed (seasonal) Straight Creek Road (FS 27), Multiple washouts Suiattle River Road (FS 26), Tenas Creek Road (FS 2660), Severe fire damage after bridge, expect fallen trees Whitechuck River Road (FS 23), Washed out at mile 4, possible to bike past. C-Post Mt Higgens access. Must park near 530 and hike in. Highway 2 & Leavenworth FSR #62 and roads to Persis trailhead - Gate often CLOSED. If locked in call sheriff. Sultan Basin Road, ? Beckler River Road (FS 65), ? Chiwawa River Road (FS 6200) Phelps Creek TH, Spider Gap, Buck Creek Pass, Gate at end of paved road may be closed Icicle Creek Road (FS 7600) - Chatter Creek, 4th of July Creek, Icicle Creek, Snow Lakes In Winter, usually closed to wheeled vehicles past the 8 Mile Road junction. Eight Mile Road (FS 7601) - Enchantments, Colchuck Lake Usually closed in winter to wheeled vehicles. NFD 6024 - Baring Mountain Barclay Lake Road is closed indefinitely due to 2022 Bolt Creek Fire Ranger Road (FS 7701) 6/6/20 - gate closed at bottom North Cascades and Baker, Mt Baker Ranger District Church Mountain (FR 3040), Welcome Pass (FR 3060), rough Canyon Creek (FR 31), good condition, may have logging traffic or construction over the next several years Nooksack Road (FR 34), Deadhorse Road (FR 37), Washed out at around mile 3, Middle Fork Nooksack (FR 38), long with a good number of potholes Glacier Creek (FR 39), Washed out repaired October 2023 Thompson Creek (FR 3910) North Cascades Highway (SR 20), Cascade River Road (FR 15), Open to Park Boundary Sibley Creek, Hidden Lake (FR 1540), Road is rough but popular. Very bad section at last switchback barely passable to a Subaru. Illabot Creek Road (FR 16), very brushy and narrow. Not recommended during rain events due to the landslide risk. Mt. St. Helens Due to a fire there is no longer a shelter at Marble Mountain Sno-Park. Forest Road 10 2012. Closed. Mitchell Peak north access - from DNR: "While the forestland is managed by DNR, the only access road to the trailhead—10 Road—cuts across private landownership, and the new landowner has gated and closed access to the road just east of the intersection with the S-1000 Road. DNR does not have a recreation easement for recreation access across this road. DNR land managers are working on a solution.In the meantime, the only access to Mitchell Peak trail is from the North Siouxon Creek Trailhead, in the southern part of the Siouxon Block. The distance from this trailhead to the top of Mitchell Peak is about 13 miles." Olympic Peninsula Olympic National Park - see current road conditions. Mount Baldy, Maynard Burn, Tyler Peak - FS 2870/120, ? Mount Ellinor, FR 24 and 2419 Mount Jupiter Road The trail and access to the trailhead are closed through fall of 2023. Yakima County/ Naches Ranger District S. Fork Tieton Road 1000 wildcat 1306 road McDaniel Lake/Buck Lake Road No. 1502 1504 road Rattlesnake Mount Hood National Forest

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PostTue Jun 08, 2021 9:23 pm 
6/8/21 no snow or problem to end of 6210. Chikamin creek/minnow ridge.

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PostWed Jun 16, 2021 11:50 pm 
Today drove Deer Creek road past the last washout, we stopped for a bit to fill the pot holes a bit to make it through. Still pretty deep potholes there but doable in my Suburban. Just past the turnout for the St Louis mines we hit about a foot of snow on the road and bailed. Then went to check out the 4020 road to Ashland-Boardman-Bear-Pinnacle lakes. The road is in HORRIBLE shape right from the start and doesn't really get better, deep holes, many filled with water all the way across the road, like small ponds. It is actually worse than the Pilchuck approach road...although it is snow free at least to Ashland and Bear lakes, did not go up the Boardman road.

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PostSat Jun 19, 2021 2:26 pm 
Drove to Barlow pass today and the MLH is still closed at the Monte Cristo TH, must have been a lot of road damage over the winter? Lake 22 TH was insane as usual.I think it's the most cars I have ever seen there, they were parked along the road all the way to the new clear cut prior to the TH on the south side of the road. I always wonder why most everyone out there goes to Lake 22? One reason is they don't have to drive on messed up logging roads, and social media hypes it up making it know to everyone. Strength in numbers, feel safer? I talked to the owner of a Pho restaurant in North Everett and he said that people of his ethnicity tend to congregate in groups, so that could be part of it as well. Like most of those people live in densely populated urban areas so feel comfortable in crowds? You would think they would want to get away from that?

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PostTue Jun 22, 2021 11:10 pm 
Anyone know what's going on with the road past Monte Cristo TH at Barlow pass? Seems like it should be open by now? Also anyone know if it's open from the Darrington side? confused.gif

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PostThu Jul 01, 2021 11:21 am 
Chief Joseph wrote:
Anyone know what's going on with the road past Monte Cristo TH at Barlow pass? Seems like it should be open by now? Also anyone know if it's open from the Darrington side? confused.gif
Looks like it's open now. "Mountain Loop Highway Opens Between Barlow Pass and the Bedal Campground" https://snohomishcountywa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/83104/Mt-Loop-Hwy-release-Barlow-to-Bedal

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PostTue Jul 06, 2021 8:16 pm 
Mountain Loop Highway....@ the sinkhole....the hole on the east side where dirt meets pavement has a huge hole now, wasn't much last week. There was a car with what appeared to be a broken front axel on the side of the road. My friend in his Subaru bottomed out and made some nasty scraping noises...so don't drive in the middle to avoid the holes.

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PostSat Aug 14, 2021 12:04 am 
Sinkhole good now with another band-aide fix...the road past Barlow pass and up FS 49 is the best I have ever seen it. I guess that's why it was closed a bit longer this year, they did a great job.

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PostMon Sep 06, 2021 4:52 pm 
Perry creek road is back open and nice cleared and graded, I assume for upcoming logging activities...no signs as of yet.

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PostThu Jan 06, 2022 12:33 pm 
Snoqualmie, Stevens, Blewett, and White Passes closed until Sunday we have had 2.3” rain since midnight. 96 in Gorge also closed.

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PostThu Jan 20, 2022 2:44 pm 
Mount Baker Highway (542) FR 37 (Deadhorse) closed @ MP 1 due to washout right before Boyd Creek interpretive trail. Road was graded in September. (Pic 1)
FR 39 (Glacier Creek) closed around snow park due to washout at approx @ MP 3.7. (Pic 2)
FR 31 (Canyon Creek) semi close due to creep at Jim Creek slide.

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PostWed Feb 09, 2022 10:59 am 
Anyone know if any trails are accessible in the Leavenworth area? I heard they got record snowfall Jan 6 and I can't find any trip reports on WTA. Any info is greatly appreciated - I'll be heading out there Sunday and would love to get a hike in.

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PostThu Feb 10, 2022 12:45 pm 
mbarto wrote:
Anyone know if any trails are accessible in the Leavenworth area? I heard they got record snowfall Jan 6 and I can't find any trip reports on WTA. Any info is greatly appreciated - I'll be heading out there Sunday and would love to get a hike in.
You can use Sentinnel Hub to view satellite imagery produced by the Sentinnel-2 satellites every few days. I import the data into Caltopo personally but there are other ways as well. Looks like things were pretty covered on 2/7 around Leavenworth. Let me know if you want a shot of a more specific area. (Or instructions for how to replicate this information yourself)

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PostWed Feb 16, 2022 10:15 am 
Thank you! We ended up hiking Sauer Mountain. It was difficult to find the trail initially. But once we got up out of the bowl, we were able to follow the trail all the way to the top.

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PostSat Mar 05, 2022 11:33 am 
Roads in the Olympics are so trashed that the National Forest has taken down their Road Conditions page. Individual firewood cutters are slowly working on clearing the roads as snow melts. I believe the Lower South Fork Skokomish trailhead should be accessible now. The Lake Cushman Road is clear and open up to the closed gate at the National Park boundary, and across the causeway to the Dry Creek and Copper Creek trailheads. Beyond that the road is closed from a previous year's landslide but there's no trailheads up there anyway. The road up to Wynoochee Lake is open, and again individual firewood cutters are working on the rest of the roads. I hear that the Lake Quinault road is open.

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PostMon Mar 21, 2022 4:03 pm 
Drove to the South Fork Skokomish Trailhead yesterday. Once you enter the national forest (road to there is great) and all the way to the trailhead there is a lot of tree debris on the road. Enough of the trees have been cut out of the way so that there is enough space for one lane of traffic. If there were no trees on the road, it’s a two lane road.

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