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 : Central Oregon Cascades