Moderate (to Oval Lake and Palisade Point)
4.8 miles round trip
1180 feet elevation gain
Open mid-July through October
Use: hikers, horses
A pleasant forest trail from a paved road climbs along this creek to Oval Lake. And although the little lake doesn’t have much have a view, an extra half mile takes you to Palisade Point, a crag atop a 300-foot cliff overhanging the Badger Creek Valley, where you can see Mt. Adams, the plains of Eastern Oregon, and the top third of Mt. Hood.
Drive Highway . . .
If you keep right at junctions from Oval Lake you’ll reach the even better viewpoint . . .
This chapter taken from the book 100 Hikes: Northwest Oregon