Middle Fork of Snoqualmie Road Access

Some friends and I were looking at the Snoqualmie Haute Route in Martin Volken's book. Can anybody tell me what kind of access there is into the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River? I thought I had heard that road is no longer accessible as described in Martin's book.

The road is now permanently gated at the Dingford Creek trailhead, leaving a long stretch of road to get into the upper Middle Fork. I think it's a mountain-bike candidate, but there are certainly going to be some big washouts of the road that would need portaging -- other folks here have done the trek and can speak to it better.

A couple of friends tried the Haute last year and I believe they went in via the Commonwealth.

I think the Goldmyer hotsprings folks
goldmyer.org
Will have the most up to date information about the condition of the road.

You may be able to slueth out conditions of the gated road on nwhikers. Last I'd seen, which was a while ago, the road was actually claimed to be in better condition than it had been before the gating. And at one point there was some property for sale back there with a small cabin on it - buying that would also earn you a key to the gate  .

As a slightly relevant aside, the NFS has put out an environmental assessment for the paving of the Middle Fork road (if I understand correctly, just the part up to the crossing of the Taylor River, so does not help with the gated road). But it would get you a bunch of the way to the gate a bit more comfortably...

A couple of friends tried the Haute last year and I believe they went in via the Commonwealth.

I might be one of those folks Marcus was referring to...  totally a personal preference thing, but our group was more interested in trying the traverse from Snoqualmie Pass and out via Mt.Daniel (ie- the Lowell Skoog option)... Martin's route going from Hinman back around to Big Snow and out the Middle fork didn't interest us due to the road shenanigans involved. 

I have ridden/pushed a bike up the old road with gear. This time of year I would think you might get about to the hotsprings by bike/hike then it would be a hike/skin combo to the trailhead. The road is fairly flat till the hotspring then starts to  really gain elevation after. In a few weeks you may get a bike all the way.  Plan on a few hours of hard work any way you do it just to get to the Middle fork trailhead. Going in reverse on the Haute would make sense to me logistically since you may be able to ski out half the road at the end instead of having to walk all of it at the beginning. Good Luck.