Did a hike up to Garfield Ledges from the Middle Fork Snoqualmie trailhead after doing the Pratt River Connector trail. According to my GPS track the roundtrip to Garfield Ledges via the Middle Fork Connector trail came to a total of 3.25 miles and 670 feet of elevation gain.
The Middle Fork Connector is pretty much flat and winds through some nice mossy bits of forest. There is one spot where the trail curves right past the Taylor River where there are two log chairs and access to the riverside and a nice view up at Mount Garfield, Stegosaurus Butte, and a bit down the upper portion of the MFS valley. The tread on the connector is in great shape and mostly loam.
The Garfield Ledges trail is short and could basically by described as two long switchbacks with some nice stairs in the middle. The trail is in excellent shape. The whole lower portion below the stairs and a bit above the stairs is wide, smooth loam - very easy walking. The upper section has a long stretch of something you could call either small loose rock or large gravel, however it's not steep so the grip is fine.
The ledge at the end has a great view down the Middle Fork valley, though today that direction has the mostly cloudy and the opposite direction had the partly cloudy so I'm sure I didn't even get the full effect. For the easiness of the trail the view payoff is quite good so this would be a good option to take new hikers.
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