Mt Baker

Road to Shannon Creek

I mentioned previously that I had to venture to the Shannon Creek campgrounds twice a day to manage it. It was more than 4 miles from Panorama Point, but three miles was a gravel road. At the beginning of the camper season it was a very bumpy road with many deep ruts. The Forest Service came out and leveled it out for us. It got rid of the ruts, but once the rain let up the road became VERY dusty. There was dispersed camping all along the road which ran alongside of the lake.

Shannon Creek closed just after Labor Day to give me time to clean it up and get it ready for next year. Then I closed the gate.

I was visiting with another camp host when a camper told us a tree had fallen across the road to Shannon Creek. We went up there to locate the tree. This is what we found.

As you can see the tree was huge. It had fallen across the road and the top portion had landed in the water. The Forest Service called out a contractor and they removed the tree from the roadway within a few hours. It was a good thing no one was traveling along that road (including myself) when it came down.

We learned that you could take FS road 1130 to FS 1131 and it would get you to the base of Mt Baker. So on an off day Stan (one of the other camp hosts) and I headed up there. It was at least 5 miles up the forest service road to a trailhead. The road kept going up and up. Along the way I got several pics. Here you can see Baker Lake off in the distance.