Explore the best rated trails in Roslyn, WA, whether you're looking for an easy walking trail or a bike trail like the Powerhouse Canal Pathway and Snoqualmie Parkway Trail . With more than 20 trails covering 4172 miles you're bound to find a perfect trail for you. Click on any trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Ok section, kind of dull. Agriculture & cows. Found a bit of shade by a grain elevator for lunch. Several washouts filled with tumbleweeds as you get closer to Lind.
Good paved bicycle path that is separated from 4 lane road by a strip of grass. It goes uphill from in the north direction so you can get a good leg burn on the way up and then cruise downhill afterwards. Scenery is a mix of vegetation, homes , and businesses that are typical of this area.
My trailhead is always the lot at 423 Washington Av SE, Orting; heading east to Buckley from there avoids the majority of urban and traffic.
But the Spiketon Ditch Bridge 9 miles on (1.6 mi past S. Prairie) is currently closed, as "structurally compromised." Trail is blocked. It's a turnaround.
I do truly love the 9 miles that are open, sections along the Carbon River, others lined with woods, through farmlands, in and out of the small town of South Prairie, views of Mt. Ranier, ...
Part of this beautiful trail is closed for salmon restoration. You can still access most of the trail by going to the parking lot and trailhead with port-a potty at 356st off of state highway 202, Fall City Road. Head past the porta potty head basically north.
It is difficult to rate this trail. I rode the trail from Seattle to Idaho during June of 2024 and experienced extreme highs and extreme lows. The ride from Fall City to Snoqualmie Pass was AMAZING - most beautiful ride I've every done. Most of the posted reviews are from riders that have only done this section. As you do a steady uphill climb your will pass rock climbers, amazing bridges, and a beautiful thick forest. Be prepared with headlights and a rain jacket as you go through the 2 + mile tunnel at Snoqualmie Pass. Once you exit the tunnel the landscape will start to change. You will still be in a forest, but it feels like a different type of forest. As you head east, the trees will slowly start to disappear as you will start to feel like your in the wild west - still beautiful but a different kind of beauty. When you reach Ellensburg, you better load up with water and food because things are about to get very tough. The ride from Ellensburg to Beverly is very remote - you will be way off the grid in the wild west (no trees) I recommend that you have some type of tracking device because you are about to enter an area where there is no water / food / people / nothing for about 40 miles. About 10-15 miles is deep sand that is very challenging to ride. I rode with 700 X 50 tires - I would recommend tires at least this wide or wider. If your riding tires any thinner it will be very challenging. Later you will ride on very rocky roads that were created for horses - not bikes. There is a fun downhill section through cliffs. MTB skills would be a plus here because there are sandy sections that suddenly appear and large rocks the size of footballs. This section is fun, but be prepared. There was a water pump that is used for horses that was located about a mile off the trail - my friend did some research and found the water pump. Make sure you carry lots of water you will be averaging about half the speed that you normally ride at. I'm sure the sand and rocky sections vary throughout the year, but it was tough when we did the ride. I'm sure most people don't know about the water pump - so do some research. You will get excited when you see the bridge at Beverly - nice place to take pictures. I recommend after crossing the bridge to ride the extra 2-3 miles to get food and water at the gas station that is east of the bridge - there will be no water or food from here to Othello. The road from Beverly to Othello was very sandy and rocky. There were rocky sections that are unrideable even for expert MTB riders. One this day it was very hot, and my friends and I struggled to make it to Othello as we rode from Ellensburg to Othello in one day. From Othello to Idaho you will continue to ride on very, very, very, very rocky roads. You will wish you had a MTB or fatbike. There are some very beautiful sections where I felt like I was in a scene from "Dances with Wolves". But you will still be very off the road and will feel like you are a early pioneer traveling across the country by horse and wagon. This ride is not for everyone. Some people will love it, some people will hate it. I have to admit that I was cussing at the rocky roads. This ride will be like no ride you have ever done before. Be prepared if your going to ride the full trail. A little information - the group I was riding with was riding across the country from Seattle to Washington DC on bikes that where fully loaded with heavy gear.
Starting at the south end is gravel. Not to far in it turns to nice asphalt. It travels close to the major road most of the way and it’s pretty noisy. Rode to the end and discovered the last mile is walking only. Rode it anyway no one said anything including the park service.
We ( recumbent trike & e-bike) headed West from the Kiwanis park. Turned around after 9km as the surface was really tough on the trike. There’s 2 good wheel tracks for bikes, but the trike had to ride partially in the coarse trail ballast. Scenic area with farm views and a huge windmill farm in the distance.
Nice paved trail. Of the 20 miles between Puyallup and Buckley, MOSTLY I SAW FOLIAGE, farms, some homes. I went there and back, thus, 40 miles. With bike I departed Puyallup parking at Monday noon, so very few people using it. 78 and blue skies, Mt. Rainier was present in my sights. Super easy as there is nothing much to call a hill. Some complain about road noise, and around Orting, the trail runs along the road and through this town, so sure, noise there. (I ride with some good earbuds in listening to podcasts, so noise nearby noise is just not a factor for me.) But before and after Orting noise or traffic scenes were not present. Of course, you can turn around to you head back to your car at any point, making this a 15 mile, 30, or such. This is a bike path to just ride easy and enjoy; no sweat.
The western trailhead of the Issaquah-Preston Trail is 100 yards or so up the East Lake Sammamish Trail from that trail's southern trailhead. So begin there, at NW Gilman & the east leg of 4th Ave NW in Issaquah. (The east leg of 4th Ave NW - a one-way, one-lane street starting just east of the caboose on Gilman - sports a lane of free parking along its west side that's mostly used by Trail cyclists and walkers.) The East Lake Sammamish Trail itself is adjacent, just to the east of 4th Ave. Cycle under the I-90 double underpass to see the Issaquah-Preston Trail's entrance on the right.
The only serious road crossing is early on, Front Street. With its I-90 entrance and exit ramps, you’ll want to use the crossing light! From there, you’re headed uphill to Preston, mostly along I-90. The trickiest choice comes quickly, the fork. Choose the LEFT fork, alongside the vegetative sculpture, under the four- or six-lane highway-speeds Highlands Drive to the immediate T, where you'll choose left once more; you’ll be off pavement onto gravel just a few yards further.
If, instead, you find yourself past the fork, still on pavement, on a relentlessly-brutally-uphill trail, wondering what train system would have tackled a grade like this one, you’re asking the right question - no train would have - you took the right fork, as I did - and you need to coast back down to the fork again, to take the correct fork, past the sculpture, under the for-all-intents-and-purposes highway (Highlands Drive), then left again onto gravel, to stick alongside the I-90 right-of-way.
As others have reported, there’s highway noise along much of the Issaquah-Preston Trail - but I’d characterize it as considerably less noisy than the Cedar River Trail, which I will not cycle again. This trail angles through lots of forest before it emerges onto SE High Point Way which, on a late Saturday afternoon, had zero traffic for the almost-mile it shared a roadbed, with bikes getting a full car-width lane set off from vehicles, had there been any. It then seamlessly becomes (well, you do have to cross to the north side of High Point Way at the trail crossing sign) the paved Preston-Snoqualmie Trail, wending its way past Preston’s trucking and light industry firms, then its athletic fields and park, before easing back into forest.
The fields and park are the high point of the trail; from here begins a gentle descent. I turned around two miles past the park, when the paved trail took a sharp turn to the right into what appeared to be a much steeper descent - I’d had my quotient of climbing in my inadvertent detour to Issaquah’s Highlands. But before reversing course, I continued on gravel straight for 100 yards to what must have been the beginning of the railroad’s Raging River trestle. There’s just a bench here, now, with the sound of the Raging River far below.
My total roundtrip was 19 miles - not sure how much of that was my “adventure” - as steep as it was, I’m sure it seemed much longer than it was - probably roundtrip, less than 2 miles off my intended route.
Nice real pretty ride on gravel and paved trail. It’s slightly downhill headed west from Landsburg Patk, but hardly noticeable. You run along the Maple Valley highway at about mile 7, so it’s not as pretty.
Started at Landsburg and stopped at Cascadia Pizza right on the trail. 5mi one way. Perfect segment in nature with the rustling Cedar River next to us. I think the trail aligns with the highway right after this point and gets less interesting. Definitely recommend this segment.
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