The story of the name Stillaguamish and the beginning of the relationship between the town and the tribe.

Arlington remembers the importance of the railroad here.

Arlington prospered from logging. But it took the railroad to wipe out its rival, Haller City.

The Railroad Made This Town

View from the new Centennial Trail bridge looking up the south fork toward the Lincoln Bridge on Hwy. 530 which goes to Darrington.

View of the south fork of the Stilly in the evening sun from the bridge deck

View from the Centennial Trail bridge over the Stilly looking up the north fork

The two forks of the river merge at the Centennial Trail bridge and then flow under it.

Each winter, the bridge becomes a log jam.

Highway 9 was re-directed over this new bridge over the Stilly a few years ago. The old bridge was torn down.

The Centennial Trail bridge is quite substantial because it was originally a railroad bridge.

The old Highway 9 bridge was parallel and adjacent to the railroad bridge. The only remnant left is the south bridge support.

The Lower Stilly starts under the Centennial Trail bridge and flows west through farmland to Puget Sound.

Closer view of the North Fork. Looks calm now but it's a raging torrent during the winter rains.

My favorite view of the Stilly. I've never traveled this section of the river but I've canoed downstream from Arlington to Silvana.

The trail uses an overpass to cross over a road to the gravel quarry just north of the river.

Farming flourished in the valley to feed the growing town. The population grew quickly.

The trail follows north out of Arlington. This stretch is near Highway 9 and the vehicular traffic tends to spoil your experience of the lower Stilly valley.

The Gravel Quarry just north of town decimated a large area, but it seems to be running out of gravel and now is becoming a very beautiful natural environment (in places).

The intersection of Highway 9 and the gravel quarry road. This view from the trail is looking west (into the sun). Someday I'll come back in the morning and get good light on the subject.

This trail-side park bench view of the lower Stilly Valley was a great place to sit and contemplate. Then someone plopped a bunch of houses there. Sorry for the photo; I'll re-shoot.

The Stillaguamish Tribe fish ladder and hatchery are just a mile north of Arlington. From the trail you can see them through the woods.

The Stillaguamish Tribe raises salmon of different species. I think they are released right there at the hatchery where they take the tributary on down to the Stilly.

This not-so-great photo shows the tributary of the Stilly that runs under the trail and into the fish ladder on the other side.