The road to the waterfall, located in the Salome Wilderness, is gravel. It’s called Forest Service Road 487, also known as Workman Creek Road. The trail is well traveled but unpaved. The difficult section starts after the waterfalls, going to 7,748 feet at Aztec Peak lookout. Anyways, should not be attempted without a high-clearance, four-wheel-drive vehicle. Forest Service Road 487 to the waterfall is 3.2 miles long, starting off the Arizona 288-Globe Young Highway. The drive up to the top of the falls is 2WD (in good weather), but after the bottom falls recreation area (Waypoint 005), it gets steep, narrow and scary for those afraid of heights. The unpaved sections of the road can be impassable when wet. After rain, sections of road can become decidedly hazardous when fast-flowing creek crossings and slippery mud can cause road closures. The area contains naturally occurring uranium and radium-266. There’s a danger of low level radiation poisoning. DO NOT enter any of the mines in the area. Many of these mines have radiation levels that would be enough to recommend that you "evacuate" the area.

This is a maintained road where a high clearance 2WD vehicle is able to travel safely at low speeds on long dry straight-of-ways, without losing control due to wash boarding, ruts, or dips. The spur road to the Workman Creek Falls and the trailhead can be steep and a little rocky in segments. Once on FR 487, you pass a well-established youth campground on your left and continuing up this FR you pass three “camping areas”, called appropriately Creekside, Cascades, and finally Falls.