Deception
Pass Foundation
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Deception Pass State Park
Pass Lake West Trail
Distance: 4 miles (out and back)
Difficulty: 3
Begin either at the Pass Lake parking lot or from the Rosario Road trailhead shown on map below. The trail follows old roadways, fire-roads and logging roads for much of the route. Although this trail is one of the very few in the northern half of the park, it only begins to show what lies in the parklands beyond. Along the way you will see separate and mixed stands of deciduous and evergreen conifer trees including some in clear progression from mature alder to developing fir. If you look closely (and very carefully) along side trail opportunities in the spring you'll find wildflowers including nodding onion and various local varieties of small orchids and lilies.
Click on map trail segments to view associated photos
| Panoramas: |
| Bald Area above Southwest Pass Lake (60K) |
| Bald Area above Northwest Pass Lake (60K) |
| Animations: |
| 3D rotation animation of trail locale (500K) |
| GPS file: |
| Pass Lake West Trail (zipped GPX file of trail track, 3K) |
| VRML files: |
| Virtual Reality 3D world of Pass Lake West locale (500K, requires VRML viewer, see http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/vbdetect.html for additional VRML viewer details if needed) |
| Google Earth Files (must have Google Earth installed) |
| Pass Lake West Trail.kmz (6K) (Trail track in KMZ format, right-click and download) |
| Deception Pass Bridge (3K) (3D model of bridge, right-click and download) |
| Trail track in GPX format for downloading to your GPS receiver and/or viewing in
mapping software (Google Earth, TopoFusion,
GPSVisualizer, etc.). To download trail track: 1) right-click on GPX file hyperlink, 2) select "save target as" and specify your local storage location. Then, utilize your favorite GPS/PC interface software to load the trail track(s) to your GPS receiver. |
view map | http://www.deceptionpassfoundation.org/gps_tracks/pass_lake_network.gpx |