Contact Info
10024 US Hwy. 12
PO Box 670
Randle, WA 98377
- Phone:
- 360-497-1100
Basics
- Location:
- In the Klickitat Area
- Length:
- 17.1 miles
- Elevation Range:
- 4400 feet to 5500 feet
- Elevation Change:
- 1100 feet
Description
The Klickitat Trail is a major ridgetop trail, extending from Kilborn Creek to Elk Peak. Features include ridgetop views, Castle Butte, Jackpot Lake, St. Michaels Lake and St. John Lake. Expect patches of snow as late as August. The west end of the lightly used trail begins on Road 5508.024 in the Randle District and the east end is on Road 22 in the Packwood District.
Much of the trail corresponds with an original Indian trail which extended from near the mouth of Siler Creek, over Lone Tree Mountain, around Pompey Peak and Horseshoe Point, dropped to Hugo Lake and eventually crossed the Cascades at Cispus Pass. It is called the Klickitat Trail because it extended into the upper Klickitat River drainage. Indian peeled cedar trees can be seen along the trail. Indians made folded bark baskets to collect huckleberries along the ridge system.
Castle Butte and the other high peaks along this trail were carved by glaciers. St. Michaels Lake and St. John Lake are in cirque basins also carved by glaciers.
Limited trailhead space at Forest Road 22.