Evans Creek Preserve

Evans Creek Preserve - March 9th, 2014

Mileage: Various
Elevation Gain: Negligible
Off Hwy 202 in Redmond
Dog Friendly
Difficulty: Very Easy

After we finished Cedar Butte a few of us still wanted to be hiking. So we went to Evans Creek to walk around. This is a very pretty little park. We did a circuit of the outside, which was about 1.5-2 miles. The trails were in very good condition and they have some very nice little boardwalks and bridges through the wetlands. There's apparently a pretty big bridge that spans the majority of the wetlands, but somehow we missed the turn to go see it and were pretty ready to go home afterward so we didn't go back.

This is definitely not a spend all day walking around type park (like Discovery, Tiger Mountain, Soaring Eagle or Cougar Mountain would all be better choices for something like that). It definitely would be a great place to go for a picnic and a stroll. My favorite part of this park is that there are little gnome statues all over the place. We found one that had a note attached to it that read something like this:

Hello! You've found [insert cute gnome-name] of Evans Creek. You'll now receive 999 wishes! But you have to put me in a new secret hiding place. 

So, that was pretty adorable, and we did in fact re-hide him. One of the group took a picture, but I don't have copies. Just imagine a gnome. Good. Is he really cute and about 3 inches high? Perfect.

The rest of the hike was pretty uneventful. There were some wetlands, a really pretty meadow and nice mossy tree areas (my favorite). The trails themselves are pretty flat and very well maintained. We saw a couple pushing a stroller along them, and it wasn't one of those crazy off-road strollers, so that gives you an idea about how nice they were.