Maddox Creek.
It begins near Little Mountain, in Skagit County, Washington.
Sloping ground allows the little creek to meander, flowing through two ravines, under roads and bridges and through culverts of various shapes and lengths. This little stream that could flows ever so slowly in an open channel, actually a human made drainage ditch along Cedardale Road on its way to the Skagit River. Maddox Creek flows under I-5 and into the Puget Sound just north of Camano Island.
The total length of this ribbon of sometimes hard to find water might be 7-10 miles. Regardless, this is a salmon stream. Coho, steelhead and sea-run cutthroat have been documented in Maddox Creek.
Googling Maddox Creek will result in a lot of houses for sale and very little about the creek that the housing areas are named after. Dig deep enough and you’ll find that at one time, there was talk about damming the little stream.
There is a short section of this stream that is close to my heart. It’s the most downstream of the two ravines, about 1200’ long. We’ve always just called it, the gulch. It has been home for our family since 1987, for our ancestors since the early 1930s.
The occasional comment on this blog will be based here, from home.
It begins near Little Mountain, in Skagit County, Washington.
Sloping ground allows the little creek to meander, flowing through two ravines, under roads and bridges and through culverts of various shapes and lengths. This little stream that could flows ever so slowly in an open channel, actually a human made drainage ditch along Cedardale Road on its way to the Skagit River. Maddox Creek flows under I-5 and into the Puget Sound just north of Camano Island.
The total length of this ribbon of sometimes hard to find water might be 7-10 miles. Regardless, this is a salmon stream. Coho, steelhead and sea-run cutthroat have been documented in Maddox Creek.
Googling Maddox Creek will result in a lot of houses for sale and very little about the creek that the housing areas are named after. Dig deep enough and you’ll find that at one time, there was talk about damming the little stream.
There is a short section of this stream that is close to my heart. It’s the most downstream of the two ravines, about 1200’ long. We’ve always just called it, the gulch. It has been home for our family since 1987, for our ancestors since the early 1930s.
The occasional comment on this blog will be based here, from home.