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| | Washington has plenty of good hiking and backpacking trails; among these are Coldwater Trail in Skamania County. Put on your hiking shoes, and hit the hiking trail, Coldwater Trail in Skamania County, Washington is the outdoors at its best. Coldwater Trail is not very in the neighborhood of Longview-Kelso at all, but It's always cool to backcountry walk here. If you are in Washington during backpacking season you have to go backpacking. Some parts of this great outdoors hiking trail are much higher up than other parts of the great outdoors hiking trail, so keep |
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in mind that you may need to dress differently at different elevations. With its 10.6 miles of walking distance; it's a long great outdoors hiking trail. Please follow all local rules about fires and camping. This trek should take you about 1.5 days, so better have big backpack
| | to fit all the stuff you need. Each hiking and backpacking trail in Washington has its own character. Coldwater Trail is a wet site that gets much precipitation; the month of December is the wettest with most of the rain, and July meanwhile is the driest month. Coldwater Trail is many miles long having an average number of uphill miles which makes this great outdoors hiking trail brilliant for hard core backpackers looking for adventure. The total elevation difference for this backcountry trail is 3,233 feet, and that is higher than average. Coldwater | |
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Trail has only one trailhead, so in and out is the way to hike it normally. Summer at Coldwater Trail arrives with high temperatures in the 70's, and the night is fairly colder of course, regularly in the 40's. Through the winter highs are in the 40's, and night lows throughout
the winter for Coldwater Trail tend to be in the 30's. Backcountry trekking here in Washington is something that is always fun to do. The scenic hiking trails of the Northern Cascade Range are a very glorious way to see these summits. Coldwater Trail is quite long, so do pack enough
food to last the whole trip. This is just one of a large number of great outdoors hiking trails in this vicinity.
Briefly about the general area: You just can't imagine the amount of outdoors entertaining things the area in the neighborhood of Coldwater Trail has to
offer. Don't leave Coldwater Trail without first paying a visit to Loowit Falls, and float down the rapids of Hoffstadt Creek in a kayak. Getting to Coldwater Creek from Coldwater Trail is trouble-free, and you have to certainly dedicate some time to Sugar Bowl while you're here
at Coldwater Trail. The Breach is close to Coldwater Trail and is a magnificent location; some of the water close by flows, like Glacier Creek. Life's too short to enjoy all the cool things in the Northern Cascade Range. It's always good to pop by Soda Spring; paddling on Cowlitz
River is so much fun. So much enjoyable stuff in the Northern Cascade Range, just amazing. Camping at Merrill Lake Campground is always a nice experience; why not go to Bear Cove also while you're here. A great place like Elk Prairie here at Coldwater Trail is too nice to miss, and Coldwater Trail is nice enough to spend more than a day at, Quartz Creek Big Trees Campground is a nice local campground.
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Location of Trailhead: Latitude 46.2835, Longitude -122.2608 - - Directions and Road Map
Total in and out hiking length = 10.6 miles
Total climbing distance = 4.7 miles
Difficulty : Difficult
Casual Hiking Pace:
1.5 days
Fast Hiking Pace:
6 hours
Total elevation difference: 3233 feet

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34 miles away
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36 miles away
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| These outdoors activities are available near Coldwater Trail. |
| | Trails Near Coldwater Trail:
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Fawn Lake Trail, Cowlitz County
County
, 3 miles away, 1.4 hiking miles, 361 feet elevation difference |
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Toutle River Trail, Cowlitz County
County
, 4 miles away, 19.4 hiking miles, 1678 feet elevation difference |
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Saint Helens Way, Skamania County
County
, 8 miles away, 6 hiking miles, 1114 feet elevation difference |
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Smith Creek Trail, Skamania County
County
, 8 miles away, 6.2 hiking miles, 2573 feet elevation difference |
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Pine Creek Trail, Skamania County
County
, 8 miles away, 7 hiking miles, 2561 feet elevation difference |
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Independence Pass Interpretive Trail, Skamania County
County
, 9 miles away, 1.5 hiking miles, 382 feet elevation difference |
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Bean Creek Trail, Skamania County
County
, 12 miles away, 7.4 hiking miles, 3072 feet elevation difference |
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| | Whitewater Near Coldwater Trail:
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Cowlitz River, Lewis County
County
, 10 miles away, Class III - 9 miles long (Cispus River to Riffe Lake) |
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Hoffstadt Creek, Cowlitz County
County
, 14 miles away, Class IV-V(V+) - 4.2 miles long (3100 Road to North Fork Toutle) |
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Toutle - South Fork, Cowlitz County
County
, 15 miles away, Class II-III - 11 miles long (Harrington Place to Big Wolf Creek) |
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Siouxon Creek, Clark County
County
, 16 miles away, Class III-V - 12 miles long (Calamity Creek to Yale Reservoir) |
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Muddy River, Skamania County
County
, 16 miles away, Class II-III(IV) - 5.5 miles long (FR 25 Bridge to Lewis North Fork) |
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| | Hotels Near Coldwater Trail:
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Best Western Battle Ground Inn & Suites, Battle Ground
, 34 miles away |
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Bonneville Hot Springs Resort, North Bonneville
, 36 miles away |
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Skamania Lodge, Stevenson
, 36 miles away |
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Best Western Columbia River Inn, Cascade Locks
, 37 miles away |
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Holiday Inn Express Gresham-Troutdale, Or, Troutdale
, 38 miles away |
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