Glacier Peak Wilderness is a particularly rough, remote, and wild place. Trail work projects in 2025 create further impacts to travel – a short-lived matter for the benefits they’ll provide! We’re also using this page to talk about other challenges and remind horseback riders that the PCT in the area is largely not suitable for riding until it is repaired. Click the "PCT Closure Map" button to see these locations on a map.

Bridge work in 2025

- The Canyon Creek Bridge on the Suiattle Trail is under construction. Fording Canyon Creek will be required. The creek runs fast and fording it is difficult, if not impossible, when it is running with high water flows. Construction is scheduled to start June 1, and it is projected to last into mid-July. The bridge is 0.4 miles west of the intersection of the Suiattle Trail #784 and the PCT at mile 2544. This impact is on an important connector trail to the PCT, which means it impacts access to and from the PCT. - During the same period, the log bridge across lower Miners Creek (mile 2547.5) will be replaced. Crossing the creek will require a ford that can be difficult during periods of high water. You can detour around this ford using the Miners Ridge Trail #785 and the Miners Cabin Trail #795, bypassing the PCT between miles 2546.5-2554.2.

Decades-long challenges continue

Immense effort has been made to improve access in Glacier Peak Wilderness in recent years. Still, much work remains. - Broadly, the PCT between Baekos Creek (mile 2512) and the Suiattle River Trail (mile 2544) is impacted by numerous down trees, washouts, and narrow sections of trail tread. The bridge across Baekos Creek is broken and not passable for stock animals. Logs, some as large as 6 feet in diameter, make the trail especially difficult as you cross Vista Ridge (mile 2534-2537). - Be aware that Kennedy Creek (mile 2515.5) remains a permanently unbridged crossing. It has been many years since the bridge washed away. It will not be replaced. The ford of this opaque, glacial sediment filled creek is often difficult. The creek can rise dramatically during periods of high snowmelt as well as during and after storms. - Fire Creek Pass (mile ~2523) is a particularly snowbound and steep obstacle for hikers early in the year. - The PCT through Milk Creek drainage (miles 2524-2532) is in especially rough shape with high brush choking the trail. - A large avalanche path, choked with trees, off of Plummer Mountain (mile ~2553) in the upper Miner’s Creek area blocks access for stock animals. Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest does an outstanding job stewarding trail and road conditions on their website. Visit the link:

In short, be prepared!

Photo of PCTA working on Vista Ridge by Donald Sanderson.