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. |
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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