What a great little trail! We had an errand in the area, with a bunch of driving before and after. We wanted a little break in the middle but didn't have a ton of time. This was great for this. 

The road is great for the whole paved section, but gets ridiculously rough right after the bridge. But it's such a short distance. We arrived mid-day on a Saturday and there was a lot of free parking at the trailhead. The outhouse had clearly been cleaned quite recently and was stocked. 

The trail is in good shape, wide and relatively smooth. We saw a bunch of families and a few folks hiking with dogs, all on leashes. 

The view at the top is really quite great. I've been in the valley many times, and it was fun to see it from this angle. 

At the top, we saw a snake and a lizard, both spotted by some sharp-eyed kids. 

Very glad we got to finally hike this one! 

The hiking grandmas did a mellow hike to end our hikeathon quest today, two hikes from the same TH. First, we hiked up to the Ledge for some nice views of the valley and surrounding hills. The trail is in great shape, and we got there early enough to have the ledge to ourselves. After the ledge we hiked a ways on the Middle Fork until our knees started talking to us and told us to turn around. We found a nice place by the river with a view of Garfield Peak to eat lunch and called it a day. All told 7 miles. I made my mileage goal of 100 by adding this to get 106! We are able to count our neighborhood walks now, which helps. Conservation Northwest was there today educating hikers about our forest animals and native plants, fun to talk to them!  Loos clean, but BYOTP. The water is very low and the forest is extremely dry, we need our rain!!  If you want to help me finish off my hikeathon funds go to hikeathon, donate, scroll down to Linda Roe. Thanks! 

This was our last hike for Hike-a-Thon 2025.   We started about 7:30 on the Garfield Ledges connector trail then did a portion of the Middle Fork Snoqualmie Trail to add a final 7 miles to our hike-a-thon campaign.

We had the trail to ourselves on the ledges with one runner passing us, and didn't encounter too many people on the Middle Fork until after 11:30

Facility at TH was clean, but no TP.

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Great to see the plants all looking so fresh and healthy after getting over 2 inches of rain yesterday. The clouds made for a nice mood.  Starting at the Gateway trailhead adds a nice 1.5 miles of forest walking to this short hike.

3.6 mi, 700ft

The road was fine in our sedan. GPS recorded 2.1 miles and 650ft elevation gain for this roundtrip hike. No bugs on this very warm day.