Palouse to Cascades-Connecting Malden and Rosalia

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Category Overview

State Parks grants help preserve and develop our state’s best outdoor recreation areas by funding new campgrounds and amenities to increase the capacity of our parks, creating new parks, improving park resources, and protecting historical areas. These grants help our state continue to develop our world-class parks system to share our cultural heritage and natural treasures with all of its visitors.

Project Highlights

This project regraded three locations where the existing trail intersected an existing road to reduce the steepness of the trail grade, graded and rolled approximately 7.5 miles of improved surfacing, resurfaced 1.5 miles of trail with crushed rock, and developed a new trailhead near the town of Malden. The new trailhead consists of a vault toilet, hitching rails, accessible car and trailer parking, a drinking fountain, an informational kiosk, and a picnic pavilion.

Quick Facts

WWRP Applicant: State Parks Category: State Parks WWRP Grant: $1,716,631.44 Applicant Match: $78,848.60 Project Type: Development County: Whitman Legislative District: 9 Status: Completed RCO Project # 18-1840

Location Details

Drive into Malden and turn north on 10th street. The proposed trailhead is located at the end of the road. From here you can head east on the trail toward Rosalia to see the entire 9 miles of proposed trail surfacing improvements. Alternatively, you could start in Rosalia at Gashouse Road and head west toward the trailhead at Malden

What is the WWRP

The Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program (WWRP) is a state grant program that creates and conserves local and state parks, wildlife habitat and working farms. The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office administers WWRP grants, and the legislature funds the program.