I chose "Trail in good condition" as it is a great, level trail for about a mile and a half. Then you get to the totaled bridge. Other postings have said it's passable, but with my dog, I decided to turn around. Disappointed that I didn't get to lunch on the river, I did find a do it yourself trail about a quarter mile back that led to the river without too much acrobatics. I got to lunch, the dog got to play in the river. All's right in the world. Only two other people on the trail the whole way.

Nice, easy hike through the woods.  Trail is closed at Beaver Pond because a tree fell on the foot bridge.  Thousands of tadpoles in the pond that were fascinating.  

Our trail crew was initially supposed to do the Old Sauk trail, but we got moved to Beaver Lake at the last minute. Sadly, Mother Nature has not been kind to this trail over the winter. There are two signifcant blowdowns of large trees across the trail, requiring a crawl over/under down in the muck and a slick few steps to regain the trail. One blowdown has a very large trunk and long legged tall hikers can straddle it to get over. This old gal, however is short legged and I had to lay on my stomach and kinda roll to get my legs over. In addition, the trail has been eroded further and there is a visible crack down the mud in one section that, I'm sure will be another slide eventually.  The biggest dissappointment however was the large blowdown that took out a large section of the bridge over the ponds. This is unfixable and will require funding for a new bridge (in our dreams). You can now no longer access the other side of the ponds and the nice lunch spot at the end of the trail along the river. Our crew today left the blowdowns for the Forest Sevice, the damage being above  the pay grade of a volunteer group. We worked instead on clearing the minor blowdowns off the trail and worked on mucking out some drainage ditches and establishing better flows. This trail is still hikeable for experienced hikers, but I can no longer recommend it for small children, small dogs and as a recovery hike. When the blowdowns are cleared and the trail reestablished then it may be safe. Really sad about the bridge tho.

Ideal day for an early spring hike; low overcast and a steady drizzle. A perfect day for people that like crowds even less than rain.Then the sun came out and I was nearly blinded by the spectacular multitude of brilliant greens.

The trail was pleasant and easy to follow except for fallen trees, lots and lots of fallen trees. Where the trail first reaches the river a number of trees have fallen/slid into the river, completely obliterating the trail. Also, the bridge over Beaver Lake has had a section smashed out of the middle. Both areas are passable with difficulty.

When it is cloudy/rainy the forest is dim, quiet and somber; but when the sun came out it was alive with birds and the sound of frogs. A wonderful hike for starting the tune up for summer.

There was a little snow/ice on the road in once you get to the Natl Forest - not bad at all to navigate with only occasional slick spots. The turnoff to the trailhead has much more slow accumulation and our car (has AWD) got temporarily stuck in the deep snow. We ended up parking on the side of the highway. 

Trail is largely snow-covered, but has no altitude gain. Many down trees over the trail that were moderately difficult for our bigger dog to navigate. Then the bridge is taken out and was not safely passable with the dogs so we turned around. Good views of the river and nearby mountains.

Few mosquitoes out, even though it was cool and snow-covered. As stated by a previous reviewer, this is a pretty winter hike, but I suspect the bugs in the summer would make this not as fun.