This moderately used trail is one of the main access routes from the east into the central part of Indian Heaven Wilderness. From Road 6035, the trail climbs gradually through a thick mountain hemlock forest, past a series of small meadows, shallow lakes, and ponds. The trail continues into alpine forests of noble and true fir before reaching the shore of Junction Lake, where it ends at the Pacific Crest Trail near the junction with Trail No. 179. Junction Lake sites at an elevation of 4,730 feet.

Small lakes, ponds, marshes, meadows, wildflowers, hand hewn bridges, and Junction Lake.