French Pete Trail

French Pete Trail
Map of French Pete area and surroundings
Length	9.9 mi (15.9 km)
Location	Cascade Range, Lane County, Oregon
Designation	Three Sisters Wilderness Willamette National Forest
Trailheads	French Pete Trailhead (west) Pat Saddle Trailhead (east)
Use	hikers, horses
Elevation change	about 1,000 feet (300 m)
Difficulty	easy to moderate
Season	late March to mid-December
Months	about 9
Sights	French Pete Creek old-growth forest
Surface	natural

The French Pete Trail is a 9.9-mile (15.9 km) hiking trail in the valley of French Pete Creek in the Three Sisters Wilderness of western Oregon.^[1] The trail passes through low-elevation old-growth forest that was a nationwide political issue in the 1960s and 1970s because of conflicting plans for logging and for wilderness designation, respectively. In 1978, the U.S. Congress passed a bill adding the French Pete area to the Three Sisters Wilderness.