SYRINGA PARK TRAILS
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This well constructed trail system is in the vicinity of the Syringa Park
camping and day use area. There are two trails (Syringa and Yellow
Pine);
both work up the open hillside along easy grades. Yellow Pine Trail is
further west and runs through generally open Ponderosa (or Yellow) Pine /
Douglas Fir forest, offering excellent views of Lower Arrow Lake below.
Syringa Trail is the easternmost trail, climbing from the trail-head near
Syringa Creek and staying relatively close to the creek in a denser
evergreen forest during its ascent. A short spur ventures further up into
the steep-sided ravine in which the creek runs, while the main trail turns
west and runs in that general direction to join up with the Yellow Pine
Trail.
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An alternate leg of the Yellow Pine Trail leaves the Deer Park Road
near its junction with the Park Access Road; this trail joins to the
east-west connector described above, thus offering various possibilities for
routing. There are site maps in place, as well as several interpretive stop
markers.
In total, the trails offer about 5 km. of hiking pathway. As the terrain is
open with many intriguing rock outcrops, the intrepid explorer can ramble
about to his heart's content.
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