Salmon Mountain Trail #787, OR

This trail enters the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness. The trail crisscrosses the ridgeline to an abandoned lookout. There are outstanding views of the nearby peaks, the Cascades, and the Salmon River Drainage at the lookout. Rarely visited, it is a good place for solitude. The trail is narrow and rocky.


This trail begins at Plaza Trail #783 and ends at an abandoned lookout near the summit of Salmon Mountain. From Plaza Trail #783 (3,840’), the trail follows a ridge with the occasional steep pitch. The trail is rocky with no tread between 0.9 mile and 1.3 miles. The trail makes a switchback up to the lookout (4,000’) at 1.6 miles.