This is the site of the deadliest landslide in U.S. history. The SR 530 Flooding and Mudslide disaster occurred at 10:37 a.m. March 22, 2014.
It took the lives of 43 people and injured 10 others, destroyed 36 homes, and flooded 9 others as the slide material dammed the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River. The slide also damaged a one-mile section of State Route 530 and the Whitehorse Trail.


I rode my ebike along this trail, starting here, and making the crossing of the debris field. The contrast of the tree growth was weird. It went from evergreen trees interspersed with deciduous trees here and there, to the 'replacement trees' that fill in the gaps. Mounds of dirt here and there have a haunting reminder of what was, that of house address markers highlight piles of dirt where houses once stood. The landscape is but a haunted memory.