Yahi Trail - Bidwell Park

Hiking Tuesday! Today we stayed local, and hiked the Yahi trail in Bidwell park. This was my first time hiking pretty much anywhere in Bidwell, and it was a nice, easy introduction trail. You can essentially go as far as you desire on this trail, and we went up to Salmon hole (past Bear hole).

Another beautiful day, and the trail has a lot of shade, plus there are swimming holes: we swam at Salmon hole, and it was great! Didn't hurt that we were the only people up that far. There is a little climbing down to Salmon hole, but nothing difficult, and it was well worth it.

There were turtles sunning themselves at Bear hole; what's not to love about this place!? Super easy trail, very popular with the locals, and it's a great park. Can't wait to go back to this one :)

Lower Deer Creek Falls

The swimming hole :)

The Lower Deer Creek Falls is easily accessed right off highway 32 (near Chester, CA), and is about 4.6 miles out and back. The trail is easy, and there are lots of pretty spots along the way to the waterfall, and it's a good pick if you want a relaxing hike. This was our third date :)

   

The waterfall at the "end" of the hike is really pretty, but you can continue walking past this point, and apparently the trail becomes more difficult out past the fish ladder and falls. We plan on re-doing this hike at some point, and finding out how the rest of it is.

The falls!