Highlights
If you want to escape the crowds on the “Blue Lakes Highway” and find solitude in a trail-less wilderness along a cascading creek, this trip is for you. The track leaves the Blue Lakes trail at the crossing of the Middle Fork of Dallas Creek and goes through a thicket before emerging in the open among seas of Skunk Cabbage. These prolific plants crowd out most flowers at the bottom of the basin and you have to climb a bit higher to find them. You find animal tracks, some feeble attempts at mining, and views of peaks and cascading water in this trail-less wilderness. The cascades on the creek are more impressive in early spring when high runoff puts on a fabulous show.