Great new trail with a great view. Left the parking lot at 9 arrived at the top at 9:30 and back to the truck at 10. Lots of rain but the trail was holding up good except for one section in the middle that was getting muddy with the water running down the center. a couple of water diversions would do the trick. The section was only about a 100 feet long or so and a little steep. Great big staircase towards the top and lots of rock walls on the way up to check out.This will be a great running trail I think if you don't want a long distance. The trailhead is after the bridge at the end of the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie river road. They fixed the road going to the Lake Snoqualmie Trailhead Too ! Shaving a 1/2 mile off that hike returning it to the way it was a couple years ago. Hopefully it last this time. They put in a descent ditch and gave the water a good route so I can see that the water could be too high to cross at times but it should hold up. There was a descent amount of water crossing the Dingford Creek trailhead road so I turned around not wanting to see it higher on may way back. Great day to play in the rain and very happy with the work they have been doing out there! It would be great if they opened the gate to the hot springs and let us drive all the way to the old Dutch Miller Gap trailhead like when I was a kid. I think its a private road now I heard somewhere. The Trailhead is still there and in fair shape , at least it was last year. Maybe some day. I did not think they were going to fix the road to the Lake Snoqualmie Trailhead either but I"m sure they are going to need the parking.

Wow talk about that new trail smell! The road in was great. GPS took me right to the trailhead. Lots of spaces for cars. Privy available. Trail starts up the hill right behind the privy. Brand new, nice trail! Starts out with nicely laid gravel, switchbacks up through beautiful green forest. Ran across a blue wheelbarrow left over from all the hard work! The stairs are all new and perfect. A short mile up to the top. Great views! This trail will become one of the very popular ones in the area I’m sure since the access is easy and it’s such a short easy hike with a nice payoff view. But today I only saw one other person coming down while I was heading up, and had the top to myself. When you get back to the trailhead there are picnic tables near the river for lunch with the kiddos. Hit this one up soon!

Small patches of mud, less then 1 yard across so can jump. Very nice work on the bottom WTA! Appears to continue onwards but ends at great viewpoint. Seems to be less then 2 miles advertised. 

I've been wanting to get out to this hike since I saw the first posting a month+ ago. The parking lot was near empty. Maybe 3 cars counting ours. 40 degrees by the time we were starting at just before noon.

Such a nice way to gain 700 feet in less than a mile. The trail starts out with that brand new feeling, all that crushed raised gravel. Deluxe. The switchbacks are great! The stairs are so sturdy, just perfectly done. Amazing to see the amount of rocks most likely moved. Some even used as stairs.

The forest is mossy and the sun kept weaving its way in. Lots of old growth stumps throughout, with that tell tale notch. Seemed to be mostly Douglas Fir, a few Cedar and Big Leaf Maples. Saw some mushrooms and heard and saw a couple of Douglas Fir Squirrels. And you really can hear the river on the whole lower section which is lovely. 

We had a group of 3 adults, 3 babies pass us on their way down just before we were at the ledge. 

A commanding view. It's something else to trace that river back up the valley, I'm assuming the same way we Subaru wandered on in. 

We passed 2 when we were on our way back down. Then another couple with a dog on leash. Their was a couple gearing up with 2 little ones in backpack carriers back in the parking lot.

Just over 2+ miles. The trail was dry. One tiny area with mud. So many adventures to be had off this road. We will be back again and again.

Actually, the trail is in more than good condition: it's an amazing trail--and a huge improvement over the old trail to the ledges.  I ran into hiking friends last Monday who recommended the trail to me, assuring me that the new trail was doable for someone hobbling around on one crutch and a newly fused right ankle.  On my crutch, I don't usually log any real vertical gain so I decided to give it a try.  I left the trailhead at 12:17pm and got to the ledges at 1:09pm.  I headed down at 1:20pm and got back to the trailhead at 2:11pm--taking lots of photos, especially of the many mushrooms along this trail. 

My only issue was a series of stair cases up and down steep sections--and then only on the descent--which I butt-scooted, for safety--and, luckily, no one else was around to see me.

A link to my too-many photos is below, in the full report.