CHS 2 Hike - West Fork Foss Lakes

This is a long hike, so we will start early and meet at the Bothell Park and Ride at 5:30 am

Bothell Park and Ride to the trailhead is around 1 hours 20 minutes and 60 miles. We encourage carpooling! We hope to be on the trail before 7:30 a.m. so we can make some good headway in the cool morning (we’re hoping for a sunny day!) and spend some time at all the lakes we will visit.

Drivers: Please bring Northwest Forest Pass.

If it’s a warm day there will be opportunities for swimming in the lakes we visit. We will plan for a leisurely lunch at Big Heart Lake before turning around to retrace our steps. 

We will also have many opportunities to fill water bottles along this hike, so you may want to bring a filter (the leaders will as well)

We will stop for a quick bite somewhere along Highway 2 on the return.

Directions to Trailhead (from WTA)

One half mile past the Skykomish Ranger Station on the Stevens Pass Highway (US-2), turn south on the Foss River Road (Road 68). The pavement ends in 1.1 miles, and beyond that be alert for occasional potholes.

Continue on Road 68 and in about 1.3 miles, pass under a railroad trestle. Just beyond the trestle, stay right at the road fork. In about another mile, stay right again at a fork. The left fork goes to the Tonga Ridge Trail. In another 0.6 miles, pass by the trailhead for the Necklace Valley Trail, and continue on Road 68. In 0.7 miles, be alert for a left turn onto Road 6835 signed for Trail 1064, your destination. This intersection has good signs but they sometimes are partly obscured by vegetation. Continue on Road 6835 for 1.9 miles to reach the trailhead, a total of 6.7 miles from US-2.

Note that some maps-including Google-incorrectly show Road 68 going all the way to the trailhead. It does not, so be alert for the left turn onto Road 6835. At the trailhead, there is a privy, but no regular water source. A Northwest Forest Pass, or equivalent, is required.