[4][5] The Pinchot Trail System includes few significant climbs, while the footway is unusually rock-free for the Poconos region though it is often wet and muddy.

[8] Heading south from the trailhead parking lot at the corner of Bear Lake Road and Tannery Road, the trail passes through a system of meadows, and at 1.8 miles reaches the remains of a stone tower that was built in 1890 as a tribute to a local man who had died in a boating accident.

The trail crosses the unpaved Tannery Road at 3.3 miles and continues parallel to Sand Spring Creek.

At 5.1 miles, the trail turns sharply off of its old route and onto a new segment that was built in 2018 to reach the popular Choke Creek Falls.

At 10.7 miles it turns west onto another new segment that was built in 2018 to eliminate a long walk on Tannery Road.

The trail continues to the north, following the boundary of Pinchot State Forest and a private land tract.