There are many fine camping areas here on the trailside bench among tall pines, pinyons, and junipers. Beyond that side canyon, a gentle traverse through the woodland above the wash ensues. There you find another small spring, fringed with willow thickets, at 6,720 feet. The limestone of the Elephant Canyon Formation emerges in the wash just below, and the profile of Trail Canyon grows markedly wider ahead. Trailside slopes host a welldeveloped woodland, and broken cliffs of red and whitebanded Cedar Mesa Sandstone rise above in bold relief, reaching 1,200 feet up to the canyon rim.
Fine views stretch southward across Dark Canyon into the precipitous gorge of Warren Canyon.
Eventually you emerge from the woodland onto a sagebrushstudded bench. Cross the broad, dry wash, then follow above its west bank for the remaining 0.25 mile to Dark Canyon, in a broad, wooded section of the gorge 1,500 feet below the canyon rims. Upon reaching Dark Canyon wash, cross to the opposite side and join the Dark Canyon Trail beneath the shade of a large, solitary plains cottonwood. A few yards south of the trail is an established campsite, one of few in this part of Dark Canyon, though potential camping places in the woodland are numerous. A reliable series of seeps and springs emerge in Dark Canyon wash between 0.2 and 0.5 mile upstream from the Trail Canyon confluence.