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Gotchen Creek Trailhead
1 trail starts here · Mount St. Helens / Gifford Pinchot
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What you need
Fee or pass required dogs, accessibility: not recorded yet
Toilets and trash not confirmed here. Pack out what you pack in.
In Mount St. Helens and the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Entrance fee Northwest Forest Pass, $5 per day or $30 per year or an America the Beautiful pass. Day hikes need no permit; overnight stays need a wilderness permit. Rules, passes and closures change. Check the official Forest Service site before you go. Official: conditions · roads · fees · permits.
Getting there
Navigate to: Google Maps · Apple Maps · coordinates 46.12106, -121.51488
Trails from this trailhead
- Gotchen Creek Trail · Point-to-point · 3 mi · 80 ft gain · 55 min–1 h 15 min · Easy
Right now
Weather and road conditions
- Overnight: Mostly Clear, 54°F, wind 5 mph
- Monday: Sunny, 67°F, wind 1 to 5 mph
- Monday Night: Partly Cloudy, 50°F, wind 5 mph
Daylight: Sunrise 7:11 am · sunset 6:37 pm
Air: Good (AQI 17, PM2.5 3.1 µg/m³) at the White Salmon-N Main Ave monitor, 43 km away AirNow
Wildfire: High Lava fire, 54 km away, 2,899 acres, 90% contained InciWeb
Snow: 3″ snow at Surprise Lakes (4,280 ft, 19.4 km away) station
Typical year: usually melted out by about Jun 14 · typical peak Apr 10
No reports in the last 3 days.
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