The Heather Lake trail is located in the North Cascades'

^↗️, one of the most visited forests in the country. The trail itself goes over ancestral lands of the

Stillaguamish 

^↗️ people, and climbs along and across the hill, mostly along the Heather creek. The trail features old-growth forest, waterfalls, a few streams along, across, and on the trail, and finally a fairly nice lake in a quite spectacular setting.