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Harts Pass Recreation Area, Okanogan National Forest
Synopsis
When I started birding only a decade ago, I learned of Harts Pass and wanted to check it out. Only problem was that by the time I learned of the pass, a mud/rockslide wiped out the road. It took several years before they fixed it and this year I finally got to go! The narrow road up the mountain is pretty hairy, especially in one area with a good drop off on the side of the road.
We hit the wildflower season perfectly and was treated to fields of lupine, false sunflower, paintbrush, and many others on the drive up to Harts Pass. At Harts Pass, the glacier lilies, shooting stars, and mashmarigolds were in full bloom in the marshes and meadows. The view up at Harts Pass Recreation Area were georgeous and the weather was perfect for seeing the mountains and valleys. At night, a seemingly infinite number of stars twinkled in the dark sky.
We spent a little time walking the Pacific Crest Trail from the Meadows Campground. We soaked in the beauty of the Okanogan National Forest. Birds around the area included Mountain Bluebirds (plus one fledgling), Townsend's Solitare, Mountain Chickadee, and either a Black-backed or Three-toed Woodpecker in the old burn area next to the campground. I was expecting more woodpeckers because of the large burn, but maybe the burn was too old or we just didn't get to spend enough time up there.
Either way I'd like to go back to enjoy more of the hiking trails in the area and to soak in more of the beauty!
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Bird List
| Red-tailed Hawk |
1
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| Cooper's Hawk |
1
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| Rufous Hummingbird |
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| Woodpecker sp. |
likely Black-backed or Three-toed
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| Northern Flicker |
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| Clark's Nutcracker |
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| Olive-sided Flycatcher |
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| Warbling Vireo |
on road to pass
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| Townsend's Solitare |
1
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| Hermit Thrush |
on road to pass, heard
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| American Robin |
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| Mountain Bluebird |
male and females, one fledgling
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| Red-breasted Nuthatch |
heard
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| Golden-crowned Kinglet |
on road to pass, heard
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| Mountain Chickadee |
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| Western Tanager |
on road to pass
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| Lazuli Bunting |
on road to pass
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| Nashville Warbler |
on road to pass
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| Cedar Waxwing |
on road to pass, heard
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| Dark-eyed Junco |
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| White-crowned Sparrow |
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| Pine Siskin |
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| Cassin's Finch |
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| Evening Grosbeak |
on road to pass
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| Other Critters |
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| Yellow-pine Chipmunk |
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| Columbia Ground Squirrel |
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| Douglas Squirrel |
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| Pika |
heard
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| Hoary Marmot |
1
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| Mule deer |
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| Flowers in bloom |
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| Few-flowered Shooting Star |
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| Thread-leaf Saxifrage |
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| Wenatchee Paintbrush |
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| Lupine |
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| Glacier Lily |
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| Sitka Valerian |
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| Alpine Marshmarigold |
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| Globeflower |
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| Alpine Bog Laurel |
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| Springbeauty |
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| Creeping Phlox |
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| Waterleaf |
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| Stream Yellow Violet |
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| Grouseberry |
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| Brewers Mitrewort |
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| Western Anemone |
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| Cascade Blueberry |
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| Heart-leaf Saxifrage |
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| Wild carrot |
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| Aster |
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| Cusick's Speedwell |
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| Rock Penstemon |
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| White Heather |
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| Showy Jacob's Ladder |
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| Sitka Mistmaiden |
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| Spotted Saxifrage |
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| Tufted Saxifrage |
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| Alpine Anemone |
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| Mountain Buttercup |
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| Mountain Sorrel |
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| Wooly Pussytoes |
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| Red Willowherb |
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| Columbia Lewisa |
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| Purple Saxifrage |
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| Hairy Arnica |
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| Meadow Forget-me-not |
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| Western Groundsel |
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| Gorman's Lomatium |
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| Moss Campion |
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Additional flowers in bloom on the road up
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| Sliverleaf Phacelia |
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| Yarrow |
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| Mule's Ear |
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| Red Columbine |
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| Alpine strawberries |
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| Rockcress |
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White-flowering Rhodendendron
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| Cowparsnip |
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| Water Hemlock |
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| Edible Thistle |
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| False Sunflower |
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| Mountain Ash |
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| Elderberry |
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| Thimbleberry |
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| Fireweed |
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| Oceanspray |
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| Western Saxifrage |
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| Rockslide Larkspur |
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| Gray's Lovage |
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| Mountain Arnica |
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| Stonecrop |
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| Short-spurred Rein Orchid |
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| White Bog Orchid |
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| Bracted Lousewort |
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| Mountain Sandwort |
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| Harsh Paintbrush |
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| Cascade Penstemon |
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| Scarlet Gilia |
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| Oregon Checker Mallow |
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Information
Located: North of Mazama, Highway-20
Check conditions of the campground here.
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