Saddle Rock

Wenatchee WA is home to many walks of life, from the Columbia River to the top of Saddle Rock, I have a list of the best places to enjoy a cold one (could be water or beer, that's completely up to you!)

Wenatchee has been my home for more than 15 years. Probably the first thing I noticed about our Wenatchee Valley was the iconic hillside formation called Saddle Rock. Getting up to “bears” of Saddle Rock takes effort of 1,000 feet of vertical. So what...

Chelan PUD is closing the Sage Hills trails system for four months beginning Thursday (Dec. 1 to April 1) to provide a winter-feeding ground and quiet range land for mule deer and other wildlife. PUD senior wildlife biologist Von Pope says the herds typically migrate to the Wenatchee Foothills starting in December and peak in March...

Saddle Rock was closed off to the public since July 18, while crews worked on a months-long remediation project, cleaning up contaminated soil during the trail’s mining era.

The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust hopes to have a finalized trail plan in 2023.

The closure will stretch into at least mid-September and could last as late as October depending on the weather

Wenatchee Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services partnered with Chelan-Douglas Land Trust to offer family snowshoe hikes on January 25 and February 1. Thanks to the grant from Go Play Outside Alliance of Washington, the organizations will have snowshoes to distribute to participants...

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has given what locals know as "Saddle Rock" an official name: Saddle Rock Native American legend tells of Black Bear and Grizzly Bear constantly bickering until one day Coyote turned them both to stone, forming what early pioneers and settlers referred to as "Squaw Saddle"...

The city of Wenatchee is nearing the start of Phase 1 for the Saddle Rock remediation project to remove the old mining waste rock piles that are traces of when the Department of Natural Resources owned the land and allowed small mining practices claims on the area...