I could not take the rain any longer in the second week of October so I headed to Eastern Washington for the sunshine. It was pouring down rain in Seattle and continued until I got past Cle Elum, but by the time I reached the canyon it was blue skies and 70 degrees.
Cowiche canyon has everything you need for a fall hike. It is flat walk that goes through a canyon that use to be a railroad bed.
There is a stream running through it
In the afternoon it gets great light reflections off of the side of the canyon
and the canyon has every fall color that you might imagine.
There is also a trail across the top of the canyon , may be 300 feet elevation gain, that goes through beautiful grass lands.
There is a short side trail to a winery, which I didn’t take this trip, but this is sure to become a fall classic. The trail ends at another parking lot.
so you could do this as a three mile hike, but the trip in across the canyon rim and back along the canyon bottom is an easy six miles. But I would recommend it in middle October.
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