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Running trails in Snoqualmie Pass, WA
Snoqualmie Pass has 1 trail in the directory — 1 on crushed gravel or dirt and 1 with a stated distance. They're ranked here by rating weighted by review volume, across 257 Google reviews. Filter by surface, loop, distance, shade or lighting to get to the run you're actually planning — no made-up difficulty score, just the facts you'd check before driving out.
Palouse to Cascades State Park
4.6 ★★★★★ 257 reviews
51 miCrushed gravelLitScenic
Wide trail popular for hiking and bike rides, plus sledding (in winter), featuring a long tunnel.
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How to pick a trail in Snoqualmie Pass
- Match the surface to your legs. Most of what's here is crushed gravel (1 of 1). Asphalt and concrete are fast, predictable and runnable year-round but the least forgiving; crushed limestone and dirt take the sting out of high mileage; boardwalk is flat and scenic but slick in the wet. If your shins or knees are complaining, the fix that actually works is varying the surface you run on rather than chasing one "best" one. More crushed gravel trails →
- Loop or out-and-back? A loop finishes back at the car with no backtracking; on an out-and-back you simply turn round at half your distance. The longest stated distance in Snoqualmie Pass is Palouse to Cascades State Park at 51 mi. 1 trail is long enough for a 5-mile-plus run without repeating yourself.
- Check the hours before a 6am run. Plenty of trails sit inside parks that gate at dusk and don't unlock until well after sunrise, so a trail that's perfect at lunchtime can be locked at 6am. 1 is lit, which is what you want for winter evenings.
- Long run? Check water and restrooms first. 1 has trailhead parking and 1 has restrooms in Snoqualmie Pass. Anything over an hour and those stop being nice-to-haves — and in summer, shade counts double.
- The small things that decide it. 1 dog-friendly and 1 smooth and wide enough for a stroller or a wheelchair. Busy or quiet isn't a good-or-bad thing here: a busy path is the safer choice for a solo run at dawn, a quiet one is better for intervals.
More on all of this in the trail-running guides.
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