Field trip: GoHike: Beginner Hiking Course
May Hikes: 3 to 5.5 miles, 300 to 1,250 feet gain - O.O. Denny Park
This hike counts toward your monthly required GoHike course May trips. Featuring a wonderful salmon stream, a very special “wind phone” to call your lost loved ones, and lots of stairs! This hike is part hike and part urban walk with potential views of Mt. Rainier.
Contacts
- Sun, May 11, 2025
- Foothills Hiking Committee
- Day Hiking
- Adults
- Easy/Moderate
- Moderate
- Mileage: 4.0 mi
- Elevation Gain: 510 ft
- Pace: 1.5 - 2.0 mph
- FULL, 1 on waitlist (8 capacity)
- FULL (2 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
This is a gorgeous hike through a lush riparian, wooded hillside park between Kenmore and NW Kirkland. There are so many beautiful species of plants to see and birds to hear; a wonderful stream, and towering trees. 
For folks with creaky knees: one portion of this hike has a LOT of stairs we will climb and descend again later. We will go slow. We will wait for folks. If you’ve wanted to get a little stair challenge - take your time and build your climbing endurance. Most of the hike is mellow rolling hills, small bridges, and dirt. The stairs are a small portion but important to have the fitness to do. After the stairs is a mostly flat urban walk to another small park. (Sorry the images are sideways!!)
12:00 pm at Trailhead Parking (across street from Lake).
*There are two parking lots, one on the lake side and one opposite that - the trailhead is on the wooded side opposite the lake.
Please arrive early enough to have your gear prepared and ready to gather/hike by 12:00 pm.
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.
~ Hiking poles strongly recommended
~ At least 1 liter of water if not more
Make sure as always that you have the 10 Essentials