Field trip: GoHike: Beginner Hiking Course
May Hikes: 3 to 5.5 miles, 300 to 1,250 feet gain - Mima Falls
This hike counts toward your monthly required GoHike course May trips. Mima Falls is a lovely hike through woods and some marshlands which we will do the loop in a counter clockwise direction with a rest stop at the falls before completing the loop back to the parking lot.
Contacts
- Sat, May 16, 2026
- Foothills Hiking Committee
- Day Hiking
- All Who Qualify, Adults
- Easy
- Easy
- Mileage: 6.0 mi
- Elevation Gain: 400 ft
- Pace: 1.5 - 2.0 mph
- 1 (8 capacity)
- FULL (2 capacity)
- Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 8:00 AM
- Thu, May 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
- iCal Google
The Mima Falls Loop takes hikers through young plantings, lush forest, and quiet wetlands in Olympia's Capitol State Forest. Just 30 minutes from the state capital, this is the perfect year-round waterfall hike.
9:30 am at Mima Falls Loop trailhead in the Capital State Forest.
From I-5 South: Take exit 95 and continue onto Maytown Road SW for 2.8 miles. Maytown Road becomes 128th Ave. Continue on it for 0.7 miles to a 'T' intersection. Turn left onto Mima Road SW and continue for 1.3 miles. Turn right onto Bordeaux Road SW for 0.6 miles. Turn right onto Marksman Street SW. After 1 mile keep straight at the bend in the road. Follow the gravel loop until you reach the parking lot and trailhead.
Required Equipment
Be sure to be on the look out for a Hello Hiker email from your trip leader prior to your selected trip with details for the hike and gear.