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The Blue Lake Trail is an amazing hike in North Cascades National Park
that offers beautiful mountain and lake views with the possibility to see wildlife.
The trailhead is easy to get to and is right off of Highway 20.
If you're hiking the Blue Lake Trail, be sure to stop at the Washington Pass Overlook for some great mountain views.
The Washington Pass Overlook is only one mile from the Blue Lake Trailhead.
It is a short paved trail to a viewpoint of the Liberty Bell Mountain Group.
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Hi. This is Evan from Within Hiking Distance. Today, I'm hiking to Blue Lake Trail in North Cascades National Park.
It's 4.6 miles round trip and has 1000 feet of elevation gain.
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So, at 9/10 of a mile in I just popped
out of the forest and you get to see some nice mountains in front of you.
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So, I'm back walking in the forest going up some switchbacks
I'm about a mile and a quarter in right now.
The forest provides shade on a hot day.
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Just off to the side of the trail there's an old cabin.
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I hiked this trail at the end of the day and there are only a couple people at Blue Lake when I arrived.
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So, I just made it to Blue Lake. It's real nice.
Definitely worth it and what's even cooler is that there's a mountain goat right over here.
He's coming down to the water. That's super cool.
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The highlight of this hike was seeing some mountain goats.
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One mountain goat first came down to the water for a drink.
I took some nice video of it while it walked along the lake.
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I also saw a mom and two baby mountain goats walk right by me as I was on a
rock overlooking the lake.
I thought I was taking some nice video of them as they were walking by,
but didn't realize my camera wasn't filming until it was too late.
After enjoying some time at Blue Lake and watching the mountain goats I took a quick swim,
packed up my stuff, and headed back down to trail to the parking lot.
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So the Blue Lake Trail is pretty amazing.
I saw some mountain goats and the scenery is great.
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