Nestled on a nondescript back road coming out of Snoqualmie Pass (the roadway is actually the highway prior to when the current interstate was built.), Olallie State Park has an equally nondescript entrance... the sign to the park is largely obscured by trees - I only noticed it on the way out. 

  There are a limited number of trails in the park... they connect to other, longer trails that continue outside the park's boundaries.

 
The park doesn't have overnight camping, but there are day use areas scattered around the small park. 

In one area, the roadway is lined by old logs... that are as tall as a person! 
 

Part of the old roadway through the Pass, this bridge adds to the character of the small park. 
 

 
At the west end of the park, there is a viewing platform overlooking the Olallie River, and Weeks Falls, which really makes for a nice place to sit.

The logs are likely displaced trees from the windstorms this winter... they looked fairly recently fallen.

The park surrounds the powerhouse at the base of Weeks Falls.

About a mile upstream, a diversion dam (lower left image below) sends water through a screening structure and then down through a tunnel to the powerhouse... in that way, power can be generated without the use of a Dam that might otherwise restrict the movement of fish.
 

with the storms, and the coming spring, there are a lot of logs lying in and around the banks of the river.

The runoff of the snowmelt had the river flowing fairly high when we visited the park. 
 

 
We're going to come back when we have time... this is one park we'd like to show to folks in our family, and spend a day up here, in the mountains.

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