The access road, FR6410, is in great condition. Not a single pothole. The trail has no number, it is just an extension of the road after the concrete barricade at the trailhead. A few feet into the trail begins a day of seeing all manner of fungi, mushrooms and lichen in white, gray, red, orange and in between. Most impressive to my untrained eye was the large white bear's head and the orange coral mushrooms. And on the large side of the flora were the giant cedars that had some been spared the early century cutting. Our group had done this three years ago but it was covered in snow so this time we got to see all of the exotic plants in late autumn.

The trail follows the river along to the southeast which is in view for most of time. the trail dips down at times very close to the water but the river always seems just out of touch unless you are willing to do a little scrambling. On the opposite side of the trail is a high sheer cliff with its base about two hundred yards off to the northwest. 

We had lunch at a campground above a quiet section of the river about 0.25 miles from Coney Creek. The river there looks and sounds completely different at that point as it is nothing like the rapids and hundreds of little falls up to here.

The trail is in good condition but has a few areas of water flowing on it but it was easily avoidable and not deep. The one obstacle was a tree across the trail where we had to go over the large trunk and then under a large branch that was like skinning the cat through parallel bars. The trail climbs steadily but is gradual enough that we were surprised that we had done several hundred feet of gain. A slight hazard was the wet leaves covering wet rocks, especially on the return trip on the descent.

The are no restrooms at the trailhead and the facilities at Money Creek Campground are closed for the season. There is a restroom at the ranger station east on Hwy-2 just past Skykomish.

I went up to Coney Lake via the West Miller River Trail last weekend and hiked up Lennox Mt. It's a pretty trail that seems to be getting partially revived by a bunch of climbers and boulderers, but only up to the first mile.

The path was decent up to the turnoff to the old Coney Basin mine, but I missed the turnoff because it was so overgrown. I made the turnoff a bit more obvious by fixing the cairn.

The way up to the mine was in reasonably good shape (lots of blowdowns, but good otherwise). The way up to the lake from the mine trail was super difficult to follow; I was looking at my GPS app almost constantly since it was so overgrown. There were no decent trail markers after the spot where I got off trail until I got up to the lake. Definitely slid and fell on my butt a lot when I was going downhill since there were so many pine needles on the ground.

The mosquitos were annoying along the trail and horrible up near the lake.

The lake and the views were awesome.

We took a short hike on the first ~1.5 miles of this trail. Much of this portion of the trail (after the first 1/4 mile or so) has snow on it, but it is hard enough that no traction devices are needed. However, eventually the snow becomes deep enough that gaiters would be helpful.

Went out for an easy hike along the river to restart my hiking season.  The road was refreshingly well maintained.  Did not pay as much attention to the flowers as I usually do, but there were columbines, asters, and foxglove among several flowers seen.  Saw a garter snake and a western fence lizard on the trail.  Ripe berries were fairly plentiful - thimbleberries, huckleberries, and trailing dewberries.  The river felt good in the heat, but the flies were enough of an annoyance that we did not linger by the river.

I had heard that the trail was seldom used, but this day, it was surprisingly busy, with at least 3 other groups.  All of the other groups were out there for the bouldering.  According to one of the groups, the trail has 95 spots suitable for bouldering.  The 3 bouldering sites I surveyed had interesting, clean granite boulders.  I did not stop to climb, but the groups all seemed to be having a good time.

Well groomed trail along the river. We only went 1 mile in but had the trail all to ourselves. Gravel road for 3 miles has no potholes, which was nice.