Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
8.0/3.6
End of the one-way loop road (do not enter here) that passes the Virginia Cascade and
picnic area.
8.2/3.4 Ice Lake Trailhead.
This wheelchair-accessible trail— relatively wide and
level—is the shortest way to reach tree-bordered Ice Lake (0.3 mi/0.5 km from the road). The
name comes from the days when ice was cut from the lake for use at the now long-gone Nor-
ris Hotel. This lake has one backcountry campsite accessible to the disabled.
In the twentieth century, Ice Lake was repeatedly but unsuccessfully stocked with grayling.
North of Ice Lake, this trail joins the long Howard Eaton Trail to the Norris campground area
on the west.
This forest, severely burned in 1988, showed patches of grass and young lodgepole pines in 1996.
To the east, the trail passes Wolf, Grebe, and Cascade Lakes on its way to the Canyon
area. Fishing is excellent in these three lakes, but there may be grizzlies about.
8.5/3.1
Parking on both sides of the road for the boardwalk to the
Fire and Blowdown ex-
hibit,
with no warning sign for those traveling east. A tornado-force wind tore through here
in 1984, followed four years later by the big fire. In this locality there is slower regeneration of
growth than in most other badly burned areas, perhaps because the soil was scorched by the
burning of dry trees that were already lying down.
