As others have stated, the road is slow going. The trail was fine with the exception of Lower Ashland Lake which, at one end, had a few boardwalks under water.  Fun hike!

When we arrived there were no cars in the lot, and only 3 others when we returned. We began walking at 9:20 and got back to the trailhead at about 1:30. 

Enjoy a hike on a well maintained boardwalk visiting three lakes covered in part by ice.  The end of the Upper Ashland Lake boardwalk is submerged in a bit of water so taking the recommended photo at the end of the lake is difficult unless you have high water boots to transverse 10-12 inches in water to step on the other side of the boardwalk. Don't let this discourage you from a lovely 5.4 mile loop hike in the forest. It is a beautiful hike in moss covered forest.

The road to the trail head has serious pot holes and is about a 20-30 minute drive to the start of the hike.  Driving a Subaru is perfect for this gravel road.

Enjoyed the hike immensely--beautiful dry, cool, sunny day. Found the trail basically as described---however, we could not get to the last 25 feet at the end of the final lake because the boardwalk was underwater.  It didn't matter, as we had a good enough view from the campground area.

However, we did find the dirt road more challenging than expected---lots of large, deep potholes for much of the road.  We did a lot of zigzagging and bouncing in our car---fortunately a Forester Subaru with high clearance. Phew!

Had the trail completely to ourselves.

This was a wonderful morning hike. The road up was a bid rough but OK if you are paying attention. The trails were clearly marked and a nice walk early in the morning. No snow yet but a little ice on the lake edges. A few of the boards on the trail were slick so be careful. 

The best part was on our walk out to the parking lot we saw one other couple  on there way in....oh the best best part lake 22 parking was overflowing.

Had the place to ourselves all morning.  Followed up by lunch in Granite Falls never hurts either.

I took my almost 3 year old daughter and dog out to hike this trail today, but after over a mile up the access road, I decided to call it and turn around.  The road was very rough from the start, but at a certain point I feared puncturing a tire. 

I drive a suburban with new all terrain tires, so anyone in a sedan would be hard pressed to make it up.  I'll try again next year when hopefully the road will be smoothed out a bit.