Lynwood offers a number of hiking trails. For a short and picturesque hike to Puget Sound beach, head over to Meadowdale County Park for a jaunt down the 2.5-mile Lunds Gulch trail. Rambling along beside a cool and shady forest ravine, Lunds Gulch provides fantastic views of Whidbey Island and the Olympic Mountains. It’s lush in local vegetation, and the creek running down the gorge’s canyon teems with salmon and trout. You can also see the stumps of the old cedar trees left behind by the lumberjacks who first cleared this region. The notches are still visible! For a somewhat longer hike, take a gander at Centennial Trail, a 25-mile round trip hike with an elevation gain of 200 feet. Or, for the hiker who enjoys more of a challenge, don’t miss out on the Lime Kiln Trail. Running alongside the narrow canyon of the Stillaguamish River, Lime Kiln has an elevation gain of 600 feet, and also offers something of a guided tour through the history of this area. A railroad once ran alongside the canyon, and you can even still see one of the old lime kilns this trail was named after. Looking for a break from all the hiking? The Edmonds Underwater Park offers more than 27 acres of tide and bottomlands built specifically for scuba divers! Following fixed guide ropes, this park’s over 25,000 yearly visitors are treated to glimpses of an enormous array of local marine life, which thrives on the local man-made reef structures and historic sunken vessels found throughout this park. You can also explore many of Lynnwood’s local waterways by kayak or canoe. There’s no shortage of available rentals in the area. If even all this isn’t enough adventure for you, then you certainly don’t want to skip over Lynwood’s famed rock climbs. Right off of Highway 2, for instance, you’ll find Index Town Wall, a 500-foot vertical cliff with some of the greatest climbing challenges in the state. There’s also Exfoliation Dome—the most difficult 4,000-foot peak in all of Washington, with a variety of crack, slab, and aid climbs (depending on which side you decide to take on).