Echo Basin and Fish Lake
- Easy (to Echo Basin)
- 2.4-mile loop
- 600 feet elevation gain
- Open late May to mid-November
- Easy (to Hackleman Grove)
- 1-mile loop
- 50 feet elevation gain
- Easy (to Fish Lake grave)
- 0.8 miles round trip
- 30 feet elevation gain
These three hikes in the Old Cascades west of Santiam Pass are so short that you can easily do them all in a day, touring a mountain basin filled with wildflowers, a grove of old-growth giants, and a historic wagon road with a pioneer grave.
To start with the wildflower loop, drive …
This chapter is an excerpt from 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Central Oregon Cascades.