[jm31828]

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but wife, kids, and I were out hiking a couple of simple trails on the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River road last weekend, and drove up to the upper Mailbox Peak trailhead just for a moment and saw a sign for a new loop trail that starts out at the far end of the parking lot- and the trailhead was blocked saying it was still under construction. Does anyone know the name of this trail, or know anything about it? I should have taken a picture of the sign when I was there, but since it was pouring rain I didn't jump out and go take a look at it.

[catsp]

[philfort]

Nice, glad to see more trails in there. Looks like most of it is on some kind of old roadway, visible on google maps.

[mosey]

[Kim Brown]

Not sure anyone will be able to use it. Someone taking their grandma for a stroll won't be able to find parking, and won't try again; well, at least I wouldn't. But they should at least try to add more trails, so I don't blame them for trying....

[Malachai Constant]

What I would like to see is a crossover from new to lower part of Old for descending. Lower part of Old trail is not that steep to that point and New trail is unnecessarily long even uphill at points.

[jm31828]

Thanks for the reply!! I agree, it's fantastic having more trails- but the absolute worst trailhead parking to be sharing, given the mess that this one is most of the time. However, on Friday when we were there with the rain falling, there were just a few cars- so I think if this was a trail that was open, we would have been inclined to go ahead and try it out.

[Now I Fly]

It's a neat little loop with a couple very nice bridges. There is a short incomplete section through a wet spot that may be tricky for some folks (but probably not most). Nice stroll on a rainy midweek day. :-) The Granite Creek Connecter is also a pleasant hike and should work well for the young ones. I've heard that there is a plan to connect it to the Mailbox parking lots. More parking will certainly be needed.

[jm31828]

[thunderhead]

Hope it comes with more parking! Weekday and offseason its a good use of available parking though.

[JonnyQuest]

[jm31828]

[cascadeclimber]

"Parking for this trail is overcrowded. We need to cut down trees and pave a new parking lot." Cuts down trees and paves parking lot. "Hey, since we got this new lot, let's build a new, short, limited appeal trail." "But the new lot is already overcrowded because you already built a new trail." "I know, but I'm sure if we build another new trail it will magically relieve the overcrowding. PS- we already don't have enough budget to maintain the trail and parking infrastructure that we currently have, so that same magic allows us to add infrastructure and maintain it with the already inadequate budget."

[uww]

Kudos on them for making the Mailbox Peak parking experience available to those with no time, desire, or ability to make to to the top. They should put a mailbox by the information board for selfies.

[puzzlr]

Work on completing this trail has been stalled since the summer of 2021 because of quirks with the biennium funding cycle. All that's left is a 60' boardwalk to get through the wet area that Now Fly referenced. The DNR hoped to use a WCC crew to finish it this year, but that obviously didn't happen.