Little Cowhorn Lookout

Little Cowhorn is a must-visit lookout point in the Forest. The mountaintop is a very open, rocky area that can be explored and traversed with care. The views of the Cascade Crest are somewhat distant, but you will have excellent vistas of the western edge of the Forest, and some major watersheds, such as Fall Creek. The trail rises through several types of vegetation and terrain, including deep timber, rocky outcroppings with dramatic towering faces, exposed flowering rocky slopes, and the grassy mountaintop area. An excellent early season warm-up hike or close-in late-season outing. Exercise caution on the final approach, which traverses a rock face with a cable handrail.