From the Slacks over look cross the Parkway, and proceed North, the Trail head can be seen from the road and is about 100 m north of the parking area. The trail descends through a mixed hardwood forest with many remnants of the American Chestnut, then proceeds into a stand of Hemlock, several of which have succumbed to the wooly adulgid.

At the base of the first descent a stream begins to parallel the trail providing the moisture for a Rhodendron thicket.