Guillemot Cove Trail

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Trails Plateau Loop Trail (0.4 mi) Breaks off Guillemot Cove Rules from the upper part of the River Loop The trails in the Guillemot Cove Nature Trail and soon climbs steeply up the ridge 1. Guillemot Cove Nature Reserve has Reserve are all natural surface trails. a “Pack it in – Pack it out” policy. to a plateau in a quiet, open forest. Main Access Trail (0.2 mi.) Begins across Continue around the loop and return the Please bring a bag or other container the road from the parking lot. This trail way you came to the River Loop Trail. for trash and take it when you leave. winds through an evergreen forest with 2. Park in designated areas only. huckleberry underbrush. Watch for dead Beach House Trail (0.25 mi) From the 3. Help protect reserve habitat by snags with Pileated Woodpecker holes. It is kiosk, go across the meadow, cross Boyce staying on trails and off habitat roughly a mile long and sloping downhill. Creek on a wooden bridge and a small areas. One can follow the access road through an footbridge to the hillside. Keep right 4. The reserve, including the beach, is alder and big leaf maple tree forest or across a meadow, by an old orchard, and bordered by private property. Please continue through to the Sawmill Trail. down the old road adjacent to a marsh. At respect neighbor’s privacy by the beach house find access to the beach remaining within the reserve Sawmill Trail (0.3 mi.) After following an on Hood Canal. boundaries. old logging road, wander through large 5. Collection of plants, animals and sea sword ferns to a grove of alders. At this Ridge Trail (0.45 mi) Behind the beach life is prohibited. point it connects to the Margaret Trail. house, and to the left. It connects again 6. Dogs, horses, or other pets are with the Beach House Trail at the old prohibited. Margaret Trail (0.25 mi.) The narrow trail orchard. 7. Alcohol, smoking, fires and firearms follows the side of the hill until cutting are prohibited. steeply down to sea level. It passes through Stump House Trail (0.2 mi) The trail 8. Recreational vehicles, bicycles, a coniferous forest with a few large cedars starts on the hillside across the small ATV’s and motorcycles are The trail combined with the Sawmill Trail footbridge on the Beach House Trail. It prohibited. is approximately ¾ mile long. heads east through forest and meadow, and ends at the Stump House (a large Maple Tree Trail (0.3 mi) Begins at the hollowed out cedar stump with a roof). kiosk and follows an old roadbed. It continues along Boyce Creek in an easterly direction. This flat, easy trail goes through an alder and big leaf maple forest with a small meadow. A very large big leaf maple is across the creek. Information provided by

River Loop Trail (0.3 mi) Begins at the Kitsap County Parks Kitsap County Department of end of the meadow on the Maple Tree Trail, Parks, and Friends of Guillemot continues along Boyce Creek, loops back Cove into the forest, and returns to its starting point. Look for the old growth stumps.