Verlot Public Service Center

Wow if you haven't visited the Mountain Loop Highway & it's off-roads (former logging roads) east of Verlot, you are in for an unbelievable treasure of undescribable beauty kept hidden yet any other State, Province, Country would demand it's preservation as a National Park. I know all the little secrets of this place of wonder & a lot of it's history & if you are freaked out by the scary looking mountain people keep in mind a GAY campground has been here over 20 years with no locals freaked out, so relax, fasten your seat belt because most roads here are in bad shape! So is the restroom at the Verlot Ranger Station now a public service center. The men's room is awful, but hey, it's worse in the big city, but... they have hot water & campgrounds with showers or skinny dipping in the rivers on a hot day. Nobody is going to call a cop, there's no cell service here, so relax, but be prepared to be your own cop if you want to exercise your 2nd Amendment. The biggest tourist trap are the ice caves at Big4 mountain, but I know a secret spot where you can drive a thousand feet above them and witness the entire valley below. A view that will stun you. My family first came here from Mercer Island in 1968. Talk about culture shock!I'm 57 now & God, I love this place. Snohomish Counties little secret. Oh forgot... I took these pics last weekend, March 2, 2018. Red Bridge... Google it. And... Center rings of a tree 700 years old, cut down to make coffee tables probably, but these are the first rings of it's life notice how friken colder it was here back then. That is at Verlot on display.