2021 Hike 16: Cedar River Trail

In this trail, we did something a little different from the norm: an urban trail. It was very flat, and very long. We didn’t do the whole thing, but it was a haul! An interesting thing about the Cedar River trail, is it was actually part of the Milwaukee road, a route that connected a railway from Kentucky to the Puget Sound. It was decommissioned and abandoned in the 1970s, but the trail remains. This is a cool hike, because Brook and I live in Renton, so welcome to our home!

Brook “Vanna-ing” the Cedar River Trail.

The interesting thing about urban trails, is that you can see so many different things in one hike. We started off at the mid point, which was fairly heavily wooded, and next to a couple of small parks here and there.

This would not be a great singles event for ducks…5 guys, 3 girls!

As we went closer in, the trail actually took us through downtown Renton along some cool bridges, brick paths, and some tunnels that smelled…..not great. One of the aspects of being in a city I suppose.

Another cool thing about this trail, is it takes us past the Renton Boeing plant, which is awesome, because I’ve always been an airplane fanatic, particularly jet aircraft.

An Ural Airlines 737, likely here for maintenance

This trail is a very cool cross-section of life in my town, and I am happy to call Renton home.