{"id":77,"date":"2025-11-19T00:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/?p=77"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:58:05","slug":"ape-caves-lower-cave-trail-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/all-hiking-abilities\/beginner\/ape-caves-lower-cave-trail-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Ape Caves, Lower Cave Trail: Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1.5 miles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beginner <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cracks in the ground, gentle uphill and downhill slopes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Must have comfortable shoes, flashlights or headlamps (bring extra), and warm clothes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A permit is required<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lower cave trail of the Ape Caves is a perfect hike for a family. This hike does require permits \/ a parking fee. When parking, the caves are a short walk from the parking lot. Make sure on the way to clean your shoes, and do not smoke, eat food, bring pets, or collect rocks in the caves to help preserve their delicate ecosystem. Upon arriving to the entrance of the caves, you will be required to walk down a flight of stairs to get to the entrance. Once entering in the caves, make sure to have some sort of light. Look for the sign to find the lower cave system. Within the cave, there are small cracks on the floor, so make sure you watch where you are going. The caves also can be cold and have gust of wind, so make sure to bring a light jacket \/ sweatshirt, and pants to stay warm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Buy trail passes here: <\/p>\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/www.wta.org\/go-outside\/passes\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"79\" src=\"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ape-cave-low-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ape-cave-low-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ape-cave-low-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ape-cave-low-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ape-cave-low.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" data-id=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ape-Cave-Trail-1024x577.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ape-Cave-Trail-1024x577.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ape-Cave-Trail-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ape-Cave-Trail-768x433.webp 768w, https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ape-Cave-Trail.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lower cave trail of the Ape Caves is a perfect hike for a family. This hike does require permits&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beginner","category-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellakieran.usnh.domains\/hiking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}