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Plan Your Perfect Road Trip 91 Worth a Stop Near the summit at Johnston Ridge Coldwater Lake Trail is an easily navigated boardwalk leading to a lake that was formed after the eruption. Nearby the Hummocks Trail hummocks are mounds of volcanic debristakes an hour to walk and is moderately strenuous winding through lupine fields and beaver ponds on the site of the largest landslide in recorded human history. Trip Tip A sample itinerary for this byway is available under Scenic Byways Road Trips at www.ScenicWA.com Left Recovery is evident at Mount St. Helens. Inge Johnsson Top Coldwater Lake Boardwalk. Bottom Helicopter tours from Hoffstadt Bluffs. mtsthelenshelicoptertours.com Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center About 27 miles into this road trip Mount St. Helens becomes spectacularly visible at nearly every turn. The Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center offers an opportunity to take a good look at the volcano and surrounding valley. Large elk herds can often be seen in the mudflats below the parking lot. Helicopter tours operate here from spring through fall and theres a nice restaurant with a one-of-a-kind volcano view. Weyerhaeuser Forest Learning Center Continue east on the half-mile-long bridge over Hoffstadt Creek and enter the blast zone. The Weyerhaeuser Forest Learning Center at MP- 33 describes the work of foresters before during and after the eruption with an emphasis on reforestation and conservation projects. Johnston Ridge Observatory At the highways end is Johnston Ridge Observatory where visitors are only five miles from the crater and lava dome of Mount St. Helens. Stands of dead trees stripped of their bark and the remains of Spirit Lake its surface still covered by a mat of logs leave a lasting impression. Park rangers conduct regularly scheduled interpretive hikes and energetic talks about the blast.