New and Looking for Trails

[Deborah Haney]

Welcome, I'm near Seattle too.
I pretty sure (90%) that goats are seen as stock in WA at least on forest service land and national parks. We only take them to trails that allow stock for that reason, and Nick worked with various trail people for the forest service. A lot of trails are designated hiker only. 
We also don't like dealing with the crowds and I think they are working on getting shuttle buses for hikers to the I-90 corridor because of all the parking problems, we won't be going there. For the most part we keep our goats on leads unless it's obvious there a very few of us on the trail because of off leash dogs, and liability. 

Besides using maps as a resource we sometimes use the FS website. 
FS WA Horse trails

I wish we had Nanno's view on where to take goats...

I was looking for information on stock on the Washington Trails Association and a few trails specifically prohibited goats but I didn't see any that were just for stock. My second reason for wondering about off-lead was because if we encountered an off-leash dog (despite the fact that we have only been on trails that require dogs to be leashed), I would want my goats to be able to run away without being stuck to me or a branch their lead catches on. I'm kind of working it out as I go. :/