SEQUIM – The Olympic Discovery Trail will follow a long and winding road through Sequim Bay State Park – at least until the state can restore a trestle across Dean Creek.
The bridge, little more than steel rails and wooden ties with no room to hike or bike, once carried Milwaukee Road trains around the bay.
After they stopped running over the trestle – and squashing the pennies that children placed upon the rails – the state dismantled the trestle as a hazardous temptation.
Now the state Interagency Committee on Outdoor Recreation is contemplating replacing it so the trail can continue on the abandoned railroad grade on both sides of the creek.
Until funds are found for that project, the trail will follow existing roads through the park.
Clallam County commissioners on Tuesday tentatively approved acquiring easements from the state parks department.
