Cabin Creek

The Cabin Creek Partnership is an unprecedented, multi-year, highly successful, public and private effort to conserve critical wildlife habitat, recreation access and ecological connectivity.  To date over 3,400 acres of land has been purchased from private landowners and transferred into public ownership. 

Cascade Land Conservancy has conserved a mile of riverfront totaling over 400 acres along Cabin Creek in upper Kittitas County.  The most recent acquisition in this project is Cabin Mountain.

The area is extremely important for wildlife and for recreation.  The watershed provides important habitat for several listed endangered species including bull trout and spotted owl. 

The property is within the popular Cabin Creek recreation area and is used mainly by hunters, hikers, snowmobilers and cross-county skiers. The low elevation forestland is immediately south of the Lake Easton State Park’s new Reload Sno-Park. 

Ken Bevis, a Habitat biologist for Department of Fish and Wildlife celebrates the partnership: "We are delighted that these key lands are now protected.  Cabin Creek is a strategic place for wildlife habitat and connectivity.  A lot of hard work went into making this project a reality." 

From high points on the property, I-90 is a ribbon of highway through the eastern slopes of the Cascades, providing a panoramic view over the highway, Lake Easton, Lake Kachess and the Cabin Creek Valley.