If you want solitude and a room with a view, this is the place! If mosquitoes are intolerable for you, come back in the fall when they're dead.
We set up our tent on a flat grassy patch, where we had westward views of Three Fingers (fire lookout visible with naked eye), Whitehorse Mtn and Mt Bullen. Jumbo and Mt. Pugh dominate the easterly sky. Our Subaru managed fine on the 6-mile road in. Smaller cars might find it trickier to navigate various holes, rocks and ruts, but with care and attentiveness, I think you'd be fine.
The trail isn't a total cakewalk. By that I mean that in some sections it's overgrown, quite steep and rooty, and there are 3 or 4 blowdowns that you'll need to hop over (or shimmy under). That said -- it is a gorgeous walk in the woods. Lower down, look for (!)ENORMOUS(!) [as in, you could park a car inside them] stumps from old growth trees. Watch climbers creeping up Three O'clock rock. Look for three kinds of berries on this hike: thimble, salmon and blue. After about 2 miles, you'll begin encountering lichen-covered slabs of granite that form smooth runways down the mountainside, often culminating in tiny tarns that house frogs and caddis flies. The last mile is a hot slog up to the pass, where you'll find more granite slabs, a trail that peeters out, and cairns that tease you beyond the grassy campsites, upward, to a jagged ridgeline, where you'll get eye-popping views of Pugh, Shuksan, Glacier, and (my favorite) the North Cascade peaks along Rt 20 and the Cascade River Road. Sit on the ridgeline and have lunch! For those camping overnight: there's access to water for now, but since snow is the source (no streams or springs that I could see), that could change soon. Most campsites offer little shade, the mosquitos patter like raindrops against the tent screen---but, oh, did I mention the solitude? :)
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