Bluff Trail
4.3 mi · ▲ 195 ft · 1 hr 32 min
Bluff Trail is a 4.3-mile out-and-back in Miller Peninsula State Park near Gardiner, WA. It is mostly level, with 195 ft of elevation gain. It scores 80/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Bluff Trail
4.3 mi · ▲ 195 ft · 1 hr 32 min
Elevation 263–406 ft
Out & Back · Miller Peninsula State Park
Trailhead: 48.06816, -122.96320
Weather Aug 4: sunrise 5:53 AM · sunset 8:45 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading N.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading N.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading NE.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading W.
- 0.3 miSharp right, heading E.
- 0.4 miBear right onto Yarrow Cutoff, heading NW.
- 0.1 miBear right onto Diamond Point Boulevard, heading N.
- 0.4 miBear left onto Bluff Trail, heading NW.
- 500 ftReach Bluff Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.1 miBear right onto Diamond Point Boulevard, heading SE.
- 0.4 miBear left onto Yarrow Cutoff, heading S.
- 0.2 miBear left, heading SE.
- 0.4 miSharp left, heading SW.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading E.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading S.
- 0.3 miArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
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Sunset
The best sunset spot on this hike is 0.4 mi in (~9 min). Leave by 8:16 PM for the 8:45 PM sunset. Back at your car by 9:08 PM — 12 min before dark. Trailhead visible from the viewpoint
More from this trailhead
- Old Yarrow Road 3.5 mi · ▲ 110 ft
- Fireweed Road 3.7 mi · ▲ 166 ft
- West Diamond Point Trail 3.7 mi · ▲ 195 ft
- Fireweed Road & South 40 3.8 mi · ▲ 166 ft
- Old Yarrow Road 4.1 mi · ▲ 194 ft
- Diamond Point Boulevard 4.2 mi · ▲ 195 ft
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