This sign---probably installed in the 1990s---instructs hikers going to the Little Si Trail to “park only in this lot.” It is out of date because this former parking lot was replaced by a larger one that serves a new trailhead. (The stenciling of “Trail Closed” brings the sign more up-to-date.) I remember this parking lot as a dirt-and-gravel area having room for about six cars. From here it was a five-minute walk down this street to the original trailhead. That trailhead is now an impenetrable mass of bushes and blackberry vines.

When a new, larger parking lot was built, this one was de-activated and planted with vegetation. In August 2013, imagery in Google Earth and Wikimapia showed the parking lot when that vegetation had just been planted. But when I took this picture (also in August), the former parking lot was a mass of grass and low bushes.

Location of the sign: near the north end of the Mt. Si Road bridge over the Snoqualmie River, in North Bend, Washington.

Photographed with an iPhone 5.