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| Ranger's
Report |
Weather |
Road
Condition |
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| Distance: |
0.5
mile one way |
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| Hiking
Time: |
10
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| Trailhead
Elevation: |
2500
ft |
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| Elevation
Gain: |
0
ft |
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| Season: |
May
- October |
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| Difficulty: |
Easy |
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| Rating: |
Best
- Very Good - Good - Fair |
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| Use: |
Moderate |
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| Users: |
Hikers,
accessible |
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| Region: |
Mt.
St. Helens National Volcanic Monument |
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| Maps: |
USGS
Elk Rock
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Gifford Pinchot National
Forest
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| Permits: |
Northwest
Forest Pass is required. |
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| Driving
Directions: |
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| From
Seattle take I-5 South to Exit #49. Turn east and follow Highway 504
to Coldwater Visitor Center (MP 43). Continue on about 0.4 mile past
Visitor Center to Coldwater Lake parking on the left side of the road.
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| Trailhead: |
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| Good
parking, water available, restrooms available, picnic tables available
on the east side of the parking lot. |
| Trail: |
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June
30, 2002
This
0.5 mile-long paved, accessible trail goes in a circle providing
access to five boardwalks 
spreaded along the south shore of the Coldwater Lake. Wooden benches
are conveniently placed at every observation deck for you to enjoy
the view of the lake
and a wildlife that is in abundance here .
Interpretive signs help you to understand the stages of the formation
of the lake that occurred after 1980 eruption. It took only three
years after the eruption for the waters of the lake to become as
clear as you can see them now. It took an amazing five years for
the same organisms, that are now present in lakes that are more
than a thousand years old, to inhibit the Coldwater Lake.
A
short 0.1 mile non-accessible trail on the east parking-lot leads
along the creek
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