This Article is mainly about an extension to the estuary trail in Marysville, but it has a teaser in it about an offshoot to the Centennial Trail. I invested some time in finding a way from downtown Marysville over to the Centennial Trail because I wasn’t happy with the return to the trail from Silvana. I realized that I could ride around Kayak Point and get down to Marysville and then ride highway 529 into Everett and never have to jog over to the Centennial Trail at all. Odette and I did that route – once. SR 529 is not a fun route. I did several exploratory rides looking for an alternative and decided that Sunnyside over to Homeacres worked. To do that as a loop from Snohomish I needed to ride up the Centennial to Marysville and then cut over…
I remember 84th as a really busy road, so a trail along it would be welcome. I favored 60th (at the South end of Lake Cassidy) but might have opted for 84th if I were doing a loop out of Arlington. either way I think Whiskey Ridge is a pretty good climb and the way I ended up doing it was fairly steep.
On a related matter, note that WDOT is rebuilding the Highway 2 Hewitt Ave. trestle which will likely mess up the access to 20th from Sunnyside. Now if they would just put that estuary trail through to Homeacres…