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Walk 1/1 Northern State Recreation Area
Wide, well-built trail and excellent signage are typical of the quality walking experience offered here.
The trailhead area off Highway 20 just east of Sedro-Woolley includes the veterans plaza and its excellent displays and memorials
A few of the old farm buildings that were run by the hospital. With over 2500 people (patients +staff), the place was a self-sustaining community.
Nice views of the Cascades Foothills on this partly sunny day
Sign on the old hospital campus. SWIFT stands for Sedro Woolley Innovation for Tomorrow
The hospital campus included over 50 buildings
The old auditorium
Descriptive signage explains the history of the buildings
Back on the forest path
Sulphur Tuft mushrooms
Hansen Creek flows through the property, and is crossed on several bridges
Crossing the Song Sparrow bridge
Wonderful cedar forest and well-manicured trail
Many old snags create forest sculptures
Sneaking inside a hollowed-out cedar snag
Trail habitats-- forest...
Meadow...
Creekside...
and grassy fields.
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