Teanaway Ridge loop via Highway 97

Trip Report

We parked at the intersection of Highway 97 and Road 9714 (at Iron Creek). We headed SW up a third road, after about a mile we headed north up a spur road (actually I think we took an earlier road not on the map and ended up doing a bit of cross-country to get back on route). We followed roads until they ended just west of point 4,002'. From there we followed the ridge to the top at 4,943'.

From the summit we took the ridge NE, crossing point 4,792', accidently detouring off the ridge shortly after, we got back on route and finally headed back toward the car via the ridge with point 4,465' on it.

See the route map below for details. No difficulties on this route. We did have to pay close attention to navigation since all those ridges look the same!

Maps

• Online map with route drawn on it: Teanaway Ridge loop route map

Travel Times

• 35 minutes driving there from Wallingford to Preston park and ride
• 1 hour 29 minutes driving there from Preston park and ride to intersection of Highway 97 and Road 9714
• 2 hours 30 minutes ascending from intersection of Highway 97 and Road 9714 (2,965') to top of Teanaway Ridge
• 3 hours 10 minutes descending from top of Teanaway Ridge (5,040') to intersection of Highway 97 and Road 9714

Visited

• Kittitas County
• Liberty USGS quad
• Teanaway
• Teanaway Ridge
• US 97 Corridor
• Washington State