Rattlesnake Ridge

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Rattlesnake Mountain
Rattlesnake Ledge with Rattlesnake Lake in the foreground
Elevation	3,294 ft (1,004 m)^[1]
Location	Washington State, USA
Range	Cascades
Coordinates	47°27′30″N, 121°48′22″W

Rattlesnake Ridge

Rattlesnake Ridge (sometimes called Rattlesnake Ledge or Rattlesnake Mountain) is a mountain ridge located south of North Bend, Washington. It rises from the intersection of State Route 18 and I-90 and runs southeast about seven air miles or eleven trail miles. At 3,517 feet (1,072 m) in elevation, it is the highest and easternmost of the Issaquah Alps (although Cedar Butte in the gap between Rattlesnake Ledge and the Cascade front at Mount Washington is considered by Harvey Manning to be a quasi-Alp). A complicated maze of abandoned logging roads and constructed trails have been strung together to provide a foot path from the Snoqualmie Point Trailhead at Exit 27 on I-90 all the way to the Rattlesnake Lake trailhead near Exit 32.

Since the North Bend area was the real town used for exterior shots in the television show Twin Peaks, the East Peak of Rattlesnake Ridge could be considered one of the two real Twin Peaks (the other one being Mount Si which looms on the other side of the freeway).^{[citation needed]}

1 Legal status
2 Directions
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Legal status

Most of the mountain is owned by the state of Washington or King County, and is protected as Rattlesnake Mountain Scenic Area, managed jointly by Washington State Department of Natural Resources and King County Park and Recreation Department. Southern section of the mountain, closed to public, is owned by Seattle Water Department, while large sections in the western part of the ridge are owned by Weyerhaeuser Corporation, which conducts substantial logging operations there.^[2]

[edit] Directions

To get to the more popular eastern entrance to the park (the one closest to Rattlesnake Ledge), take I-90 to Exit 32, labeled 436the Ave. Go South on 436th Ave, which passes RiverBend and Wilderness Rim subdivisions. 436th Ave becomes Cedar Falls Road. Around 2.85 miles (4.59 km) you come to Rattlesnake Lake parking lot on the right. The road continues for a short distance where it ends at the Cedar River Watershed Education Center. (Pedometer Gmap)

The western entrance is near Exit 27 on I-90.

Public transportation access to the park is limited: the closest point Seattle city buses get to is the Factory Outlet Stores stop in downtown North Bend, a few miles from the park's eastern entrace.