✦ hidden gem
Outdoors · Forest Park edge
Switchback Meadow
Twenty minutes up the trail, the trees open into a meadow that most hikers walk right past.
- Best time
- Late spring mornings
- Effort
- A proper adventure
- Good for
- move · unwind
Why we love it
The turnoff is unmarked — look for the split cedar. In June it’s all lupine. Pack lunch, leave no trace, tell only people you like.
now you know — go before everyone does
unfolding the map…