The trailhead is on Obstruction Point Road, 0.6 miles from its gate at the Hurricane Ridge Visitors Center parking lot. Parking is available 100 yards past the trailhead for one or two cars. It has been only irregularly maintained for the first 1.7 miles, so involves some route-finding and scrambling over windfalls and through brush. The November, 2007 windstorm broke many trees along the road and upper switchbacks of this trail; these windfall were cleared, but it appears not much has been done since. Entering the first meadow at the base of the switchbacks, the trail disappears – look to the right for cut logs and a metal tag.