Devil's Punchbowl via the Spruce Railroad Trail

We drove to the Spruce Railroad Trailhead along the East Shore of Lake Cresent in Olympic National Park to hike part way along the trail to the Devil's Punchbowl a 2.5 mile round trip with 200 ft of gain. View of Pyramid Peak from the East Beach Picnic Area. The Spruce Railroad Trail hikes along the north shore below Pyramid Peak and continues westward.

View of Lake Cresent from the trail, lovely forest walk.

When we reached the tunnel, we took the trail to the left for the short trail to Devil's Punch Bowl, the across the bridge continuing along the lakeshore until the trail rejoined main Spruce Railroad Trail.

We walked through the tunnel and back to the trailhead.

some of the wildflowers we saw along the trail.

Madison Creek Falls

WE drove to the current end of Olympic Hot Springs Road in Olympic National Park to walk to Madison Creek Falls (0.2 miles round trip), while we were there we also walked down the closed road for abou 0.4 miles to view the Elwha River further upstream.

Views of the Elwah River from the parking area

Elwha River further upstream

Flowers seen along the trail

Mouth of the Elwha Beach

We drove to the west side of the Elwha River and the Mouth of the Elwah Beach Trailhead, this afternoon. We hike down to the beach, over to the mouth of the Elwha, part way up along the Elwha River, back to the beach and walked to the west and back, found a side trail that took us up a bit further along the Elwha River, lovely 2 miles of walking here.

Beach Lake Conservation Area

We walked the short trail at Beach Lake Conservation Area on the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribal Lands west of Port Angeles this afternoon, we were only allowed to hike along the beach 500 ft to the west and 100 ft to the east, making this a short )l8 mile round trip walk.

Gingko Backcountry

Since we were driving past Vantage WA after our morning hike we stopped at Gingko Petrified Forest State Park, to hike a short ways (1 mile up the closed dirt road) to see the wildflowers currently in bloom,along with distant views of the Columbia River, overall 2 miles round trip with 340 ft of gain.

some of the wildflowers we saw along this short section of the hike: