Reviewed by: Eric Austin , from Snohomish, WA

Summary:
This is my local spot (15 minutes by car) and it is a fair amount of fun. It is not very technical though there are challenging sections and the pipeline trail is a hoot (big whoop-de-doos). A couple of hours gets you some varied terrain (very muddy to completely dry), a lot of up/down and lots of trees to look at. A lot of folks have knocked it for not being challenging and for the horses, but if you go early it is pretty much empty

Recommended Route:
Any of the trails are fun, I try to stick to the small amounts of singletrack and make a serious of loops to get back to the pipeline trail for the jumps

Reviewed by: Randy Day , from Seattle, WA

Summary:
About half a dozen miles west of Monroe, Lord Hill Regional Park is on the north side of the Snohomish River, northwest of highway 522, south of highway 2. Get there by driving Main Street west out of Monroe, under 522, west towards Snohomish (the road here is no longer Main Street but the old Monroe-Snohomish road). Take 127th Ave south, to the top of Lord Hill. At the end of the road turn west into the signed parking lot for Lord Hill Park. The riding is fun, but not very technical. I was there on a very wet day and I felt the roads/trails shed the water quite well. Most of the riding is on old logging roads, some of which have over-grown into a single-track condition. Perhaps I was missing something, but there does not seem to be that much riding here. There is lots of potential if some trails were put in. This area was logged a very long time ago and never replanted with more conifers. So, contrary to much of the western Cascades, much of the cover is deciduous trees, which gives the area a bit of an east-coast feel. On a cloudy fall day, with the old, hard-pack, logging roads gently winding through a colored deciduous forest, it almost feels like riding an old carriage road in Acadia National Park in Maine. Map with some trails marked at http://www.tuketu.com/rec/bike/washington/washington_rides.htm

Recommended Route:
Head over to the pipeline trail, wander down to the river, don't miss the Beaver Pond.

Reviewed by: brian , from edmonds

Summary:
every time i come here there is more trail damage. hardly worth going to.

Recommended Route:
there is only one parking area, see: map @ trail head

Other recommended trails in the same area:
finn hill, tolt McDonald, chery vally. all of witch are getting very boring

Reviewed by: Tom , from Everett

Summary:
Only negative for is the horses (One Sunday I counted 7 horse trailers parked out front) that use this trail. Can't complain since the trails are "Maintained by the Public" and the equestrian clubs do all the work. Horses can get spooked by bikes so you're often asked to get off and walk your bike around them. This also causes one to watch their speed.

Recommended Route:
All are good. Pipeline is quite steep in places.