CochraneNow’s coverage of the Lady MacDonald designation also digs into the mountain’s existing hiking trail, a detail that adds some local color to the regulatory news.

Mount Lady MacDonald already has a steep hiking route up from the Cougar Creek trailhead, climbing to the site of a long defunct tea house. It’s a nice bit of history alongside the more technical coverage of what the new designation does and doesn’t authorize.

Worth a read if you want the fuller picture, trail lore included.