Hike 22: Ballard Locks to West Point

Driving there:  Find your way to the Ballard Locks, aka Hiram M. Chittenden locks.  Parking is expensive and limited to four hours.  Free street parking is available to the north.

We started by touring the locks.

When we were kids we called this the octopus.

Big locks.

Little locks

Spillway.  Fish ladder on right.

Looking west.

Bascule bridge with 500 ton counterweight.

We watched a few boats come and go and toured the fish ladder, but no fish today.  We hiked through Commodore park and up the streets into Discovery park, formerly Fort Lawton.  It's a maze of streets and trails, but there are lots of signs to guide you.  Click here for a very nice map.

Wildflowers and Puget Sound.

Lisa learns about the dangers of putting toxic butter on varnished clams.

West Point lighthouse.

Puget Sound.  We made it!

Click here for a map of our route.  It's slow to load, but you can zoom in for all the details.

This concludes our Mountains to Sound Greenway adventure.  We started on September 7, 2013 and finished on May 25, 2014.  We walked over 90 miles.  And we may be the only people alive who have walked all the way across King County!