It is recommended that visitor urinate on rocks or in trails. This will prevent deer and other wildlife from digging up fragile vegetation. Hang all food as bear and deer are present in the area. Reservations may be required in this area in the future. Climbers Mt. Deception and the Needles are NOT walk-ups.
Routes tend to be very steep and the rock and snow tend to be very rotten.
Not recommended for inexperienced hikers or climbers. Upper Graywolf River Trail Park Boundary to Dosewallips River via Upper Graywolf Trail National Park Service trail maintained for foot and stock traffic to Falls Creek shelter. Trail is seldom maintained beyond shelter. This trail climbs gradually through old growth forests up into the sub-alpine zone near Gray Wolf Pass. Cedar Lake way trail is not maintained and stock are prohibited on this trail.