{"id":3225,"date":"2026-01-12T22:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:59:10","slug":"chehalis-trail-olympia-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3225","title":{"rendered":"Chehalis Western Trail &#8211; Olympia, Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to relax and reflect?\u00a0 You could walk the\u00a0 Chehalis Western Trail outside Olympia, WA, where this photo was taken by my daughter, Yukyo, on New Years Day, 2026.\u00a0 The trail <span class=\"ZNx93QP1XNrBdT5MI6SY\"><span class=\"expandableItem\">is the longest shared-use path for cyclists and hikers in the region.\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"expandableItem\">It occupies an abandoned railroad corridor that was once used by the historic Weyerhaeuser-owned Chehalis Western Railroad.\u00a0 [Photo <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/copyright-symbol-e1444380117230.png\" alt=\"copyright symbol\" width=\"20\" height=\"18\" \/><\/a> Emily\/Yukyo Vollmer, Click on image to enlarge]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3226\" style=\"width: 4624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Photo-from-Emily-Dec.-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3226\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Photo-from-Emily-Dec.-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4624\" height=\"3472\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pond on the Chehalis Western Trail, Olympia, WA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need to relax and reflect?\u00a0 You could walk the\u00a0 Chehalis Western Trail outside Olympia, WA, where this photo was taken by my daughter, Yukyo, on New Years Day, 2026.\u00a0 The trail is the longest shared-use path for cyclists and hikers in the region.\u00a0 It occupies an abandoned railroad corridor that was once used by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chehalis Western Trail &#8211; Olympia, Washington<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3627,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}