Cougar Mountain (Anti-Aircraft Peak)–Big Tree Ridge Trail, 9 sights is a 12.7-mile out-and-back in Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park near Issaquah, WA. The route reaches Cougar Mountain (Anti-Aircraft Peak) at the turnaround, 6.4 miles in. It climbs 1,540 ft, with sections as steep as 24% grade. It scores 1/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi46 – 1,444 ft · steepest grade: 24%14.7 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Rainier Trail 47.52463, -122.02610
Nearest town Issaquah, WA
Directions
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Cougar Mountain (Anti-Aircraft Peak)–Big Tree Ridge Trail, 9 sights
12.7 mi · ▲ 1,540 ft · 5 hr
Elevation 46–1,445 ft
Out & Back · Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park
Trailhead: Rainier Trail · 47.52463, -122.02610
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:53 AM · sunset 7:12 PM
Transit-accessible: E Sunset Way Trailhead stop 586 m from the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Rainier Trail, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading S.
- 0.6 miTurn left, heading N.
- 100 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Rainier Greenway Trail, heading NW.
- 0.8 miTurn left, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 50 ftSharp right, heading N.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto East Lake Sammamish Trail, heading SW.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading N.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading N.
- 150 ftTurn right onto Pickering Multiple Use Trail, heading N.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Sammamish Multiple Use Trail, heading N.
- 0.4 miBear left, heading NW.
- 0.7 miTurn right onto Newport Way Trail, heading SW.
- 0.5 miTurn left, heading S.
- 0.9 miTurn right onto Red Cedars Trail, heading SE.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Surprise Creek Trail, heading NW.
- 0.5 miSharp right onto Shangri La Trail, heading SE.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Tibbetts Marsh Trail, heading SW.
- 50 ftPass Cougar Mountain (Anti-Aircraft Peak).
- 150 ftTurn right onto Harvey Manning Trail, heading SW.
- 150 ftSharp right onto Lost Beagle Trail, heading W.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading S.
- 150 ftReach Cougar Mountain (Anti-Aircraft Peak), then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.2 miSharp left onto Harvey Manning Trail, heading W.
- 150 ftTurn left onto Tibbetts Marsh Trail, heading W.
- 150 ftTurn right onto Shangri La Trail, heading W.
- 0.3 miSharp left onto Surprise Creek Trail, heading SW.
- 0.5 miTurn left onto Red Cedars Trail, heading E.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Big Tree Ridge Trail, heading SE.
- 0.9 miTurn right onto Newport Way Trail, heading NE.
- 0.5 miTurn left, heading N.
- 0.7 miBear right, heading SE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Sammamish Multiple Use Trail, heading SE.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading N.
- 0.5 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 200 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto East Lake Sammamish Trail, heading E.
- 0.3 miContinue straight onto Rainier Greenway Trail, heading E.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading S.
- 250 ftSharp left, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading S.
- 0.8 miTurn left, heading S.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Rainier Trail, heading S.
- 400 ftBear left, heading SE.
- 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
Trail surface
52% paved24% dirt5% boardwalk5% gravel14% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:53 AMSunset 7:12 PM
Good to know
- Transit-accessible: E Sunset Way Trailhead stop 586 m from the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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