12 Best Mt. Baker Hikes To Do In 2027

Planning a Mt. Baker hiking trip in 2027? These 12 hikes cover the lake views, alpine ridges, and shorter walks worth building your trip around—with trail maps, mileage, elevation gain, and the details that help you choose. STAY NEAR MT. BAKER Check cabin dates and book direct with us: https://redmountaincabins.com/?utm_so... FREE WEEKEND GUIDE Get The Perfect Mt. Baker Weekend, plus optional email updates: https://redmountaincabins.com/guide/?... From Picture Lake and Artist Ridge to Chain Lakes, Yellow Aster Butte, and Ptarmigan Ridge, this guide helps you pick the hikes that fit your time and energy. You don’t need to squeeze all 12 into one weekend. Pick a main hiking day, add a shorter stop, and leave yourself time to enjoy being up here. CHAPTERS 0:00 12 best Mt. Baker hikes 0:10 1. Picture Lake 0:54 2. Artist Ridge / Huntoon Point 1:57 3. Bagley Lakes 2:52 4. Horseshoe Bend 3:44 5. Table Mountain 4:51 6. Chain Lakes Loop 5:55 A base for a hiking weekend 6:13 7. Heliotrope Ridge 7:24 8. Lake Ann 8:25 9. Yellow Aster Butte 9:33 10. Winchester Mountain 10:47 11. Church Mountain 11:56 12. Ptarmigan Ridge 13:13 Put the choices into a trip 14:06 Plan your stay BEFORE YOU GO This is a summer and early-fall planning guide, prepared in September 2026. Snow, road access, closures, and trail conditions for 2027 are not yet known. Check current conditions before choosing a route: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/mbs/alerts https://www.wta.org/go-outside/trip-r... Winchester Mountain mileage starts at Twin Lakes. Church Mountain’s full summit route includes a scramble. Trail maps in this video are planning illustrations, not navigation tools. ABOUT THE VISUALS Some footage is AI-animated from archival photographs. It illustrates the places discussed and does not show current trail conditions. The narration uses an AI version of my own voice. This review cut contains narration only. MAP CREDITS USGS topographic basemaps; USFS National Forest System trail data; © OpenStreetMap contributors: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright THUMBNAIL CREDITS DON'T MISS THIS: “Mt. Shuksan in WA” by Jeff Hollett / jhvanwa, CC0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://creativecommons.org/publicdom... 12 EPIC HIKES and the ridge image in LAKES OR RIDGES?: “Mt Baker from the Ptarmigan Ridge trail (7942390416)” by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... LAKES OR RIDGES? lake image: “Iceberg Lake on the Chain Lakes Loop” by Dan Ust, CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Thumbnails use AI-assisted crop, tonal treatment and typography; the two-panel thumbnail is a composite. The 12 EPIC HIKES adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 2.0; LAKES OR RIDGES? is CC BY-SA 4.0. These licenses apply to the thumbnail artwork. #MtBaker #WashingtonHikes #RedMountainCabins