The waterfall here is spectacular and may bias the rest of this report.
There was a road closed sign in front of the parking lot, but that did not stop us from parking in the gravel lot near the entrance and walking down to the trail. 2 trails go off from this parking lot, so make sure you read the signs and start the right trail. The splits off the main trails that go down to the falls are not marked, but you can hear the falls. Just be careful getting down the hills, easy to slide down to see the spectacular view (watch the kids). The second view point (trail splitting off to the left after going up the switchbacks) gives a spectacular close-up view of the falls (just make sure you are safe going up and down
After that, the trail becomes interesting. Steep, unsteady at points, and then post wildfire with a few obstacles (easily traversed though) may make this less interesting for some hikers, especially for children. Whoever is doing maintenance on the trail has done a great job of keeping the trail at least open and suitable for travel after the wildfire. The upper falls can only be seen through the trees before the bridge, as it did not appear safe to traverse the burnt out bridge going over the stream above the falls to go on (around mile 2.4 if you went up and down both viewpoints for the lower falls earlier)
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