EHC - Hike Guide #5 - Lake Isabella State Park

A former farm on the eastern shore of Lake Isabella, this undeveloped Washington state park property contains more than 4 miles of lightly-used trails.

Within this 182-acre park wander on paths through old pastures, orchards and woodlots. The setting is quite pastoral and one you’re likely to share with resident deer. Delight Park Road bisects the park.

Explore trails north and south of the road and form your own loops. In the northern half of the park walk a faint old farm path across the large rolling field to the old homestead. Enjoy good views of the lake, but there are no paths down to its shore. The shoreline is cloaked in thick vegetation and there are lots of seeps on the steep slopes leading down to it. From the homestead a delightful old farm road leads east climbing a forested hill and eventually leading to Meyenburg Drive. 

Another path veers from it to enter an old orchard on the edge of the big rolling field with lake views. From here you can walk along the edge of the field back to the trailhead. The walk around the field is about 0.8 mile. You can add an extra half mile or so by following the woods roads east of the fields. South of the Delight Park Road find more trails and loop options. Follow an old farm road or walk east on the field periphery path 0.1 mile, take a right onto another old farm road which ducks under the Delight Park Road.

Both of these approaches soon meet up in the forest from where you can continue to a big beautiful field. Here you can follow a path around the periphery of the field for a half mile. Here too you can follow another old farm path south from the field. It comes to a Y-junction and then heads left skirting an upper fallow field being taken over by Scotch broom; before coming to a junction. The straight path continues south leaving state park property. Head right instead and follow another path north alongside a big wetland returning to the Y-junction.