Langus Riverfront Trail ~ August 25th 2011

The Langus Riverfront Trail is the trail that is the closest to my house. It's a great paved trail and can be used for lots of different things! You could walk/hike on it, pick blackberries (in season), ride your bike or run/jog on the trail. We went for a walk with some homeschool friends. We walked the whole Langus loop and then crossed over to Spencer Island which is a more traditional dirt and rock trail and walked most of the loop there. When you cross the bridge to Spencer Island you come to a T. If you go left you head to the side where hunting is allowed seasonally. To the right is the nature preserve. There are portable toilets and picnic tables here in case you need them.

The bridge that takes you to Spencer Island

A little more than 1/2 way around the Spencer Island loop, we stopped as the trail was getting a bit overgrown. We turned back and continued the way we had come from. Lots of blackberries on Spencer Island! We ate some and I made plans to come back and pick more the following week! Check out what I baked with some of the blackberries I picked.

The trails are in great shape with the exception of the overgrown part on Spencer Island. I have been thinking about going back with my pruners to see if I can make the rest of the loop more accessible. If you do both trails the round trip distance is about 5.5 miles. The paved Langus Trail is about 3 miles long and the Spencer Island loop is about 2.5. No elevation gain on either trail. I usually park in the main parking lot of the Langus Riverfront Park and walk South to get to the loop trail which begins just underneath the I-5 overpass.

Flower, berry and critter pictures:

Caterpillar in a cocoon

Lots of grasshoppers out and about

View from the trail

Happy trails!

Winter hiking (aka nature walks :) Langus Riverfront Trail

I was just thinking last night about how much I LOVE hiking and being in nature and thought that this would be a great way to share all of the pictures, hikes and walks with others!

I have been planning hikes to go on with our homeschooling friends. We did about one hike a week last summer and have been hiking once a month through the late fall and winter.

Today we went to the Langus Riverfront Trail in Everett, WA. The trail starts out at Langus Riverfront Park. Here are directions to the park. There is a 3.5 miles loop that ends back in the park. Before you reach the end of the trail (about 2 or 2.5 miles in), you reach a bridge on your right that leads to Spencer Island. After crossing the bridge you can turn left to enter a Fish and Wildlife hunting area and right to enter a nature preserve. If you head to the right here you can follow another loop that I estimate to be about 2 miles long. After you are done on Spencer Island you can cross the bridge and continue following the original loop back to Langus Riverfront park. We probably walked about 5.5 miles today because we did both loops. There were 6 families that walked with us today and 11 children...so it was a nice group and everyone had a great time! The sun was shining and the temperature was mild; it was a perfect day for a walk!