Marckworth State Forest

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Bridge over unnamed stream in Marckworth State Forest

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description

The Marckworth State Forest is state trust land that is managed by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. The forest is open for recreation but has no facilities or official trails. You can drive and walk along logging roads. There are several beautiful waterfalls and viewpoints.
Marckworth Forest is made up of state trust lands managed by the Department of Natural Resources as a working forest.

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facilities

While Marckworth Forest is open to the public for dispersed recreation, it does not have designated recreational trails or facilities like trailheads, designated parking areas, or campgrounds.

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hiking

Marckworth Forest (wta.org) Marckworth Forest offers some wonderful walking among forest, marshes, and rumpled rocky hills, as long as you’re ok doing your own routefinding on logging roads. It’s a quiet, little known and infrequently visited spot, less than an hour’s drive from Seattle.

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OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8589554

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Trees along Cedar Ponds Road

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On the celebration of his 100th birthday on December 18, 2005, surrounded by over 100 friends and family, he had champagne, his first drink of liquor in his life, after promising his mother he wouldn’t drink until he was 100. Five days later he died in the Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage at around 10:30 AM on December 23, 2005.

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Marckworth State Forest sign

tags

forest
Discover Pass required

unnamed stream

Unnamed stream in Marckworth State Forest

vicinity

Tower Hill

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wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marckworth_State_Forest

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