Private Mount Saint Helens Monument Day Trip

Departing Seattle from your hotel, you'll travel South to Castle Rock, then to the first stop, the Interpretive Center. Here you see the mountain in the distance and get a good visual of the before and after May 18, 1980 blast inside the interpretive center. Then on to lunch in a diner along the river, and you continue up Spirit Highway to Johnston Ridge. The visitors center here is perfectly situated on the slide-side of Mount Saint Helen's with an incredible view of the devastation from the blast and slide. You'll see a short movie and get a feel for what it was like, then you'll make your way back, past the downed trees and new forest, only 35 years old. Snacks and bottled water provided, plus lunch.

If the weather decides not to cooperate, we will gladly switch the tour to visit the Mt. Saint Helen's Lava Tube, a cave created by hot gasses from an event thousands of years ago. Same price, and though very different tours, still with the same theme!