The wilkeson Foothills Trail is a long V, with one leg following the highway into town and the other climbing through the forest.
The cedar forest is quite dense, and desposits a lot of needles on the pavement.
One of the delights of this trail is the long downhill descent back to town.
Town itself is a unique place.
The town dates back to 1879, and at one time it boasted 3,000 citizens. (Tacoma had a population of 1,098 in 1880.) The Russian Orthodox Church, founded for the immigrant coal miners, was built in 1896.