Marys Peak Summit Loop Hike
From Oregon Hikers Field Guide
- Start point: Summit Parking Area
- End point: Summit Parking Area
- Trail Log: Trail Log
- Hike Type: loop
- Distance: 1.5 MILES
- Elevation gain: 400 FEET
- Difficulty: (easy)
- Seasons: 4/1-11/29
- Family Friendly: Yes
- Backpackable: No
- Crowded: No
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Hike Description
Begin by heading up the gravel service road twards the parking area. You will be surrounded by the vast summit meadows on either side. Glacier lilies appear here as soon as the snows reced in the spring, and by early summer, the meadows will be filed with wildflowers and butterflies-peak display is usually late June/early July.
- In a quarter mile, you will cross the Meadow edge trail whcih traverses from Noble fir forest into the eastern meadow, save this for your return trip. After passing through some trees, you will reach the steep south facing rock gardens and the views open up to the west. You will soon feel like your are on the set of "The Sound of Music". If the weather is clear, you should be able to see the ocean. Try to ignore the ugly communication towers.
- After enjoying the panorama, look on the north side of the summit for a double track down through the meadow(see image on the left). Take this trail down and you will enter the woods and join part of the Meadow Edge Loop trail. Go right at a junction, and you will soon reach the gravel road you hiked up. CStay on the trail and cross the road, so you can head back down through the east meadow.
Maps
- Maps: Hike Finder
Regulations or Restrictions, etc.
A Northwest Forest Pass is needed to park at the Summit Parking area. You can purchase it on site.
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Guidebooks that cover this hike
- 100 Hikes, Oregon Coast , by Wiliam L. Sullivan
- Corvallis Trails , by Margie C. Powell
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Contributors
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