The trail head begins at the beginning of an old jeep trail. There are many side trails along the jeep trail, but Nick and I just stuck with the main jeep trail. Eventually, however, the trail turns into a couple smaller trails. We looked on the Washington Trails Association website before we left and a review said to head left when the road forks (pretty funny considering there are many forks in the road!). So, we headed left and made that our motto for the trip to the lakes. The trail was very flat and was about 2 miles to the lakes themselves. Eventually we headed over a slight slope and saw the lakes as well as a beautiful gushing waterfall coming down the cliff (surprising for the desert landscape). There were about three lakes that we could see and camping spots are all around them. You won't see wildflowers in our pictures because we went so early in the year, but we hear that it gets quite beautiful a little later in the spring.We stayed for 2 days and 1 night, but would've been fine with just a single day there. The area was beautiful but there is only about one days worth of hiking and exploring to be done (which we took full advantage of, exploring the ridges around the lakes for hours) before we ran out of things to do. Unfortunately since the lakes are so easy to get to there is a bit of pollution and graffiti scattered around the lakes. Overall it was a great hike to do early in the year, but we think its going to be a one time hike for us. Below is a picture of the waterfall we could see from our tent site.
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