Tiger Mountain - A Little History

Tiger Mountain - we live in its shadow and yet many of us know little about it.
The Mountain is comprised of six peaks in the center of the Issaquah Alps, forming a 13,500-acre triangle between Interstate 90 (I-90) on the north, the Issaquah-Hobart Road on the southwest, and State Route 18 (SR 18) on the southeast. Immediately to the west is Squak Mountain followed by Cougar Mountain, to the south east are Mc Donald and Taylor Mountains, and Rattlesnake Ridge.

Tiger Mountain has quite a history. Late in the 19th century, loggers cut the cedars and Douglas fir on the lower slopes. Railroad loggers arrived in the 1920s and engineered a tramway that went up to the 1,900-foot level (the railroad grade you walk on today). By the mid-1930s Tiger was abandoned by the loggers, and the new-growth forest took over.
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