Washington hiking trails - Ironstone Mountain Trail, Northern Cascade Range, Yakima County

   
  Every Washington great outdoors hiking trail is charming in its own way. Put on your backpacking shoes, and hit the hiking and backpacking trail, if you happen to be in Yakima County of Washington, Ironstone Mountain Trail is a great local hiking and backpacking trail for doing a bit of leg stretching. Here in the nice state of Washington backcountry backpacking never gets boring. Quite far from Ellensburg you run into Ironstone Mountain Trail, but you always have a great time when you're backpacking along it. Now this wilderness trail is pretty long,
    so make sure you bring plenty of supplies. Some parts of this trail are much higher up than other parts of the trail, and that means that some parts of the trail could be very different from other parts of it. Ironstone Mountain Trail has only one trailhead, so you're looking at
an in and out backcountry hike. Ironstone Mountain Trail sees pretty high levels of precipitation; the month of January is the wettest with most of the snow, and July on the other hand is the driest. The lovely hiking and backpacking trails of the Northern Cascade Range are the best way to enjoy these hills. This hiking and backpacking trail is a normal length hiking and backpacking trail having an average number of uphill miles which makes this a very tough wilderness hiking trail for advanced walkers looking for a wonderful challenge. All through the  
summertime months here at Ironstone Mountain Trail, high temperatures ordinarily get into the 60's, and during summer nights temperatures are in the 40's. High temperatures during the winter are normally in the 30's, and night lows during the winter for Ironstone Mountain Trail tend to be in the 10's. Ironstone Mountain Trail is 7.6 miles long it's a mid length hike. Please follow all local rules about fires and camping. With so many outdoors activities available in Washington you'll never get bored. This is one of many wilderness hiking trails in the surrounding neighborhood. Ironstone Mountain Trail has a total elevation difference of 2,130 feet which is an average number. Washington has plenty of nice great outdoors hiking trails; one of them being Ironstone Mountain Trail in Yakima County. This backcountry walk shouldn't take more than 6.5 hours, but you never know stuff could go wrong and you could get stuck so be prepared for that.

Briefly about the general area:
This is a great river. Put some time aside to spend at Indian Spring while you're here at Ironstone Mountain Trail, and Fox Meadow is a great place. That right there is a lot of enjoyable stuff already but it goes on, the Northern Cascade Range has it all. Stay the night at Rimrock Public Campground and Boat Landing, and unsurprisingly Muddy Creek flows through this area.
Get drenched paddling on Tieton River - South Fork, and a spree to Rattlesnake Meadows revitalizes the soul. Indian Creek is a stream that you may come across while you're here, and get yourself into a kayak and hit Bumping River. This place, Ironstone Mountain Trail, it definitely has so much outdoors exciting stuff. You'll need more than a day to explore everything Ironstone Mountain Trail has to offer, you can camp at Grey Creek Campground.

Location of Trailhead: Latitude 46.6576, Longitude -121.2369
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Total in and out hiking length = 7.6 miles

Total climbing distance = 3 miles

Difficulty : Difficult

Casual Hiking Pace: 6.5 hours

Fast Hiking Pace: 4 hours

Total elevation difference: 2130 feet


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 Trails Near Ironstone Mountain Trail:
Little Wildcat Trail, Yakima County County , 1 miles away,  13.6 hiking miles, 1780 feet elevation difference
Rattlesnake Trail, Yakima County County , 3 miles away, 13.5 hiking miles, 2679 feet elevation difference
McAllister Trail, Yakima County County , 4 miles away,  4.2 hiking miles, 686 feet elevation difference
Big Peak Trail, Yakima County County , 4 miles away,  11 hiking miles, 2631 feet elevation difference
Sand Ridge Trail, Yakima County County , 5 miles away, 10 hiking miles, 2174 feet elevation difference
Shellrock Lake Trail, Yakima County County , 5 miles away,  13.8 hiking miles, 2067 feet elevation difference
Minnie Meadows Trail, Yakima County County , 6 miles away, 3.3 hiking miles, 2418 feet elevation difference
 Camp Grounds Near Ironstone Mountain Trail:
Rimrock Public Campground and Boat Landing, Yakima County, 4 miles away
Grey Creek Campground, Yakima County, 5 miles away
Twelve West Resort, Naches, 6 miles away
Lonesome Cove Campground, Yakima County, 9 miles away
White Pass Campground, Yakima County, 9 miles away
 Whitewater Near Ironstone Mountain Trail:
Tieton River - South Fork, Yakima County County , 6 miles away, Class IV(V+) - 5.7 miles long (Grey Creek Campground to Rimrock Lake)
Bumping River, Yakima County County , 12 miles away, Class II - 10.5 miles long (Bumping Reservoir to American River)
American River, -blank- County County , 13 miles away, Class II-III+ - 7.5 miles long (Lodgepole Campground to Hell's Crossing)
American River, Yakima County County , 14 miles away, Class III-IV - 4.7 miles long (Hell's Crossing to American Forks)
 National Parks Near Ironstone Mountain Trail:
Mount Rainier National Park, Ashford - WA , 50 miles away
 Hotels Near Ironstone Mountain Trail:
Game Ridge Motel, Naches , 18 miles away
Crystal Mountain Hotels, Enumclaw , 20 miles away
Mt View Lodge, Packwood , 28 miles away
Cowlitz River Lodge, Packwood , 29 miles away
Inn of Packwood, Packwood , 29 miles away
 Lakes Near Ironstone Mountain Trail
Clear Lake, Yakima County , 2 miles away

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