After the first mile or so, you can give your quads a break with a spur that overlooks the Oregon side of the Columbia, and Lyle, Washington (not pictured).
A small gopher snake guards the path back to the parking lot. Although rumors of a rattlesnake were voiced by other hikers, all we saw was this little fella.
Wildflowers adorn much of the trail skirting the edge of the bluff near the top of the Lyle Cherry Orchard Trail.
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From the Lyle Convict Trail, you can get sidetracked overlooking the Lewis and Clark Highway, and the parallel railroad.
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A small gopher snake guards the path back to the parking lot. Although rumors of a rattlesnake were voiced by other hikers, all we saw was this little fella.
LYLE, Wash. — At 6.5 miles and 1,250 vertical feet, the Lyle Cherry Orchard Trail is a stiff price to pay for the average spring flower-hunter. It’s not just a tough set of lunges. It’s often deafeningly windy, sometimes terrifyingly narrow and beset on all sides by enough poison oak to ruin shorts season.
If only the Columbia River Gorge didn’t exist, I would have written this off as a punishing slog. You simply cannot complain, however, when you are treated to near-constant stunning vistas of one of the most important river passages in the world.
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Rock pillars adorn trail as a reminder that much of the landscape had been rendered apart violently by ancient flooding.
After the first mile or so, you can give your quads a break with a spur that overlooks the Oregon side of the Columbia, and Lyle, Washington (not pictured).
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