Tonga ridge parking

crash2 · Dec 1, 2006

Has anybody been up there recently who has towed? We used to park and unload at the ranger station but I am hearing they don't like that anymore and planing on heading up for a lil snow fun in the am.... But in any case for the life of me I can't remember how well they plow the road you turn onto after the renger station to head up.

Boonie Buster · Dec 1, 2006

we parked on a wide corner halfway up as you started turning right there is a road that goes straight. seemed to work fine

Cascade_Crawler · Dec 1, 2006

Yep, theres a wide spot after you cross the 1 lane bridge, also after you go under the railroad trestle theres a pretty good sized turnout.

zip1 · Dec 1, 2006

Cascade_Crawler said:
Yep, theres a wide spot after you cross the 1 lane bridge, also after you go under the railroad trestle theres a pretty good sized turnout.

I've always parked before the train trestle on the left side, plenty of room to park and unload

War-Jeeper · Dec 1, 2006

Yes there are a couple good turn outs to park not sure how plowed they are right now, last weekend they werent at all. Me and Boxxerace may be up there tomorow too wahoo. Crash do you have an open seat? I might suggest parking it at a gas station nerbey and unloading there im sure they wouldnt mind you driving a 1/16th of a mile to the trailhead

crash2 · Dec 1, 2006

No passenger as of yet sam :; But a passenger means driver gets dumb--sily things happen

Boxxerace · Dec 1, 2006

Any of you ever go up and over, and back down the north road?
It makes a loop of sorts. (see image )

Oh, and I promise not to drive my Subaru up Tonga this weekend.

And Sam, your going up with me dude on I-90 treeboy.

War-Jeeper · Dec 2, 2006

Boxxerace said:
Any of you ever go up and over, and back down the north road?
It makes a loop of sorts. (see image )

Oh, and I promise not to drive my Subaru up Tonga this weekend.

And Sam, your going up with me dude on I-90 treeboy.

I know that now lol, i posted that before i knew where we were going lol

War-Jeeper · Dec 2, 2006

crash said:
No passenger as of yet sam :; But a passenger means driver gets dumb--sily things happen

Sounds we will be going up I-90 somewhere to get trees

KarlVP · Dec 3, 2006

According to the folks at the ranger station, Tonga Ridge is closed.

But as to parking. The road on the Left right before the ranger station is where we parked yesterday on our run. Even 50 Feet in and it was pretty bad. 4WD tow rig would be fine, but Gary had some trouble with his 2wd. Or, like me, no tow rig and just drive on up.