Today we took a drive down to Mt. St. Helen’s.
On our way to Mt. St. Helen’s.
Stopping by the visitor’s center first…
Between Grandpa and Isabel you can just make out the mountain in the background.
A bit disappointed that visitor’s have to pay to go into the center however the bathrooms were free! We head back to the car to eat our lunch and get a drink before heading up to Johnston Ridge Observatory.
20 miles up the road we stopped at Hoffstadt Visitor Center.
Our first look of Mt. St. Helen’s from Hoffstadt Bluff Visitor Center.
Blowing dandelion seeds while we watch the helicopter tours at Hoffstadt Bluff.
Memorial grove dedicated to the 57 people who dead on Sunday May 18th, 1980.
Large leaves at Hoffstadt Bluff.
Back in the car, we drove another 6 miles before we stopped at the Mt. St. Helen’s Forest Learning Center.
Pretty flowers along the way to the lookout.
Mom and I walked up to lookout, while Isabel, Gino and Dad took Daisy for a potty break.
St. Helen’s from the lookout point.
Dad playing with the “critters” in the learning center.
Isabel with a black bear skin and puppet in the learning center.
Isabel playing in the virtual helicopter at the Forest Learning Center.