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| | 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, |
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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 | |
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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.
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Location of Trailhead: Latitude 46.6576, Longitude -121.2369 - - Directions and Road Map
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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31 miles away
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Stewart Lodge, Cle Elum
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32 miles away
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Current weather conditions at Ironstone Mountain Trail, Northern Cascade Range, Yakima County, Washington

Local climate location: RAINIER PARADISE R S 15 miles away

           
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Best Western Snowcap Lodge, Cle Elum
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33 miles away
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Cle Elum Travelers Inn, Cle Elum
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34 miles away
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| These outdoors activities are available near Ironstone Mountain Trail. |
| | Trails Near Ironstone Mountain Trail:
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Little Wildcat Trail, Yakima County
County
, 1 miles away, 13.6 hiking miles, 1780 feet elevation difference |
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Rattlesnake Trail, Yakima County
County
, 3 miles away, 13.5 hiking miles, 2679 feet elevation difference |
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McAllister Trail, Yakima County
County
, 4 miles away, 4.2 hiking miles, 686 feet elevation difference |
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Big Peak Trail, Yakima County
County
, 4 miles away, 11 hiking miles, 2631 feet elevation difference |
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Sand Ridge Trail, Yakima County
County
, 5 miles away, 10 hiking miles, 2174 feet elevation difference |
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Shellrock Lake Trail, Yakima County
County
, 5 miles away, 13.8 hiking miles, 2067 feet elevation difference |
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Minnie Meadows Trail, Yakima County
County
, 6 miles away, 3.3 hiking miles, 2418 feet elevation difference |
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| | Whitewater Near Ironstone Mountain Trail:
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Tieton River - South Fork, Yakima County
County
, 6 miles away, Class IV(V+) - 5.7 miles long (Grey Creek Campground to Rimrock Lake) |
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Bumping River, Yakima County
County
, 12 miles away, Class II - 10.5 miles long (Bumping Reservoir to American River) |
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American River, -blank- County
County
, 13 miles away, Class II-III+ - 7.5 miles long (Lodgepole Campground to Hell's Crossing) |
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American River, Yakima County
County
, 14 miles away, Class III-IV - 4.7 miles long (Hell's Crossing to American Forks) |
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| | Hotels Near Ironstone Mountain Trail:
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Game Ridge Motel, Naches
, 18 miles away |
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Crystal Mountain Hotels, Enumclaw
, 20 miles away |
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Mt View Lodge, Packwood
, 28 miles away |
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Cowlitz River Lodge, Packwood
, 29 miles away |
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Inn of Packwood, Packwood
, 29 miles away |
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