Double Diamond to Double Down

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A jam-packed descent that irresistibly blends flow and tech as riders play through a beautiful old growth forest at Larrabee State Park. Plus it can easily be shuttled!

Make your way to the Cyrus Gates Overlook by shuttling up Cleator Road or climbing up the Fragrance Lake Road. From the parking lot, take a moment to enjoy the view on a clear day and then push up the steep access trail opposite the lookout sign.

Drop into Double Diamond to the right (south) for loamy turns peppered with roots, rock slabs, and the occasional abrupt corner. A revision in 2015 removed a few of the more technical sections of this trail and replaced them with steep "g-outs." While you're racing down, make sure to enjoy the ferns and trees in this beautiful forest, but also keep an eye out for pedestrians too. Toward the bottom of Double Diamond pay attention for an understated trail splitting to the left. This is the start of Double Down. If you go too far and end up on the clearing at Fragrance Lake Road you can easily retrace your steps.

Double Down is steeper and more aggressive (if anyone in your party struggled excessively with Double Diamond consider finding an alternate route). Otherwise, follow the connection as it briefly intersects with the Fragrance Lake Road before reaching the proper start of Double Down. Going forwards, things just get bigger; the trees, the turns, and the optional drops (easier options are generally to the left).

There's nothing particularly unmanageable about the trail but it does require confident handling and precise navigating on the roots, steeps, and cliffside traverses - particularly compared to Double Diamond. It's also a lot of fun, and you should be all smiles on your way back up for seconds.

The end of Double Down feeds onto Fragrance Lake Road, simply follow it down to the Lost Lake Parking Area.

Larrabee became Washington's first state park in 1915 and Double Down became the park's first bike specific trail when it was constructed by the WMBC in 2015.