As you pass thru the gate and pay $10.... you make an immediate RIGHT. when you follow that road around (mind your speed!!) you will see a parking area with a bathroom on the left... thats the first parking area.... continue on the road maybe an additional 1/4 mile and you will see another parking lot to the right (This is the one you want... park there to meet lots of people. its kind of an incline to the right, with bathrooms as well).
Thats what I would consider the staging area. As you move closer to the bathrooms you will see an extended gravel parking area as you go past there make a hard right and go under the road thru a tunnel almost instantly you are on the "trails"
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