Rat Pac

UPDATE: TRAIL CLOSED. Logging on the HowGo Unit has begun. Riders should be extremely cautious if they choose to ride Alliance Road or the Ridge Road, as equipment will be moving through the area.
Rat Pac Trail is a 4-mile downhill fast, swoopy trail with exciting gravity drops, jumps, a gravity bowl, various skinnies, ladders, and a few pucker-inducing features, including the infamous Rock - an elevated ladder-to-boulder with severe consequence. The trail has hard and easy lines and is well marked, there are structure options for more advanced riders. The trail is accessed from Roslyn/Cle Elum using a logging road climb (or longer options with mostly singletrack) leading to great views from slickrock on the top of Roslyn Ridge into the Teanaway valley.

This trail is only 90 minutes from Seattle and local lodging is cheap. It's worth spending a weekend in Cle Elum or Roslyn to ride this trail.

Access Info

Please be considerate of the private land owners on Summit View Rd if parking at Coal Trax. Do not park or ride on the pavement, except to get to the signed climbing route. It is a private road and we need to keep folks off the road and shoulders. Please park at Flagpole Park or the end of Coal Mines Trail and ride up the hill if the lot is full at Coal Trax. Do not park on or along the paved road, the residents are starting to get upset about the road getting blocked by cars, and damaged from parking on the shoulder. Several people are working on a solution to expand the parking.
Flagpole Park Parking: From eastbound I-90 take exit 84 and follow the exit road directly down the hill into Cle Elum coming to the Cle Elum flagpole park which will see on your left, at the first light. You may park there in the parking lot on either side of the grass picnic area. Pedal to the north end of the park and you will see 2nd street. Pedal across Second Street to enter the Coal Miners Trail which is slightly northwest of park after you cross 2nd street. Follow along up the Coal Miners Interpretive trail until you come to the first working road (also known as Alliance or Shaft Street, not #5 Mine Rd) which crosses the trail and turn north (or take a right) and you are on your way to rat pac trail.

From eastbound I-90, take the Roslyn exit and head toward Roslyn on Bullfrog Road where you will come to two roundabouts. Take the second roundabout which will direct you toward Cle Elum. You will come to Alliance Road on your left just before you enter Cle Elum (and across from the high school, take a left there. You will come to the first yellow gate - mentioned in the new directions posted below and you may park there and begin your ride.