The trailhead is the entrance to the provincial campsite at Chute Lake. You may be able to park in the campsite if it is not busy, or at the wide spot in the KVR just below this entrance. Proceed the few steps east to the Y-junction, taking the right fork, named Elinor Lake FSR. Cross Chute Creek and stay on the most-traveled route of the Forest Service Road (FSR) wherever there is a fork or junction, maintaining a southerly general direction. Soon, you will arrive at Eleanor Lake. Note the earth dam at its north end. If water is being diverted into Eleanor Lake, there will be a waterfall across the dam on the south side. If it is running, this is a good place to explore as you may climb behind and above the falls. Exercise caution and supervise children as wet rocks are slippery, and you know children!

Your trail continues at the east end of the dam at Eleanor Lake, right beside the waterfall. Follow the irrigation service track for 1 km along the diversion ditch enjoying trees and wildflowers. Look particularly for monkshood and columbine. Soon you will encounter Chute Creek. Just up stream is a low concrete structure, the Diversion. Explore this irrigation artifact. (Naramata ceased to use upland water in the spring of 2007, but may return to its limited use at some future point.) Return to the ford.

Cross Chute Creek and up the gravel bank north. Ignore the right fork and continue up hill until you reach the Forest Service Road. Join the FSR for a breezy downhill hike to the trailhead. (Just less than 2 km.) You are walking (biking) through a clear-cut that is well into regeneration, but which affords little shade.