Devils Rest Trail #420C Viewpoint & Gorge Trail #400 is a 10.5-mile out-and-back in Benson State Recreation Area near Saint Cloud, WA. The route reaches Devils Rest Trail #420C Viewpoint at the turnaround, 5.2 miles in. It climbs 3,204 ft, with sections as steep as 22% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 22/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Devils Rest Trail #420C Viewpoint & Gorge Trail #400
10.5 mi · ▲ 3,204 ft · 5 hr 6 min
Elevation 49–2,247 ft
Out & Back · Benson State Recreation Area
Trailhead: Oneonta Trail #424 · 45.58860, -122.07854
Weather Sep 4: Heavy drizzle, high 67°F / low 55° · precip 65% · wind 4 mph · sunrise 6:34 AM · sunset 7:42 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Oneonta Trail #424, heading SW.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Gorge Trail #400, heading SW.
- 1.7 miContinue straight onto Larch Mountain Trail #441, heading W.
- 1.2 miSharp right onto Wahkeena Trail #420, heading W.
- 0.8 miSharp left onto Devils Rest Trail #420C, heading SW.
- 1.3 miTurn right, heading W.
- 150 ftReach Devils Rest Trail #420C Viewpoint, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.3 miSharp right onto Wahkeena Trail #420, heading NE.
- 0.8 miSharp left onto Larch Mountain Trail #441, heading SE.
- 1.2 miContinue straight onto Gorge Trail #400, heading W.
- 1.7 miContinue straight onto Oneonta Trail #424, heading E.
- 0.2 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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- Parking lot at the trailhead
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