The Hanum Day Use Area at Chautauqua Gorge State Forest offers a developed access point with a parking lot, picnic pavilions with fire rings, and seasonal restroom facilities adjacent to a tributary of Chautauqua Creek.

An accessible ¼-mile loop trail with crushed stone surface provides easy hiking and biking access, and the area serves as a trailhead for the Fred J. Cusimano Westside Overland Trail.

Note that the State owns limited creek bed property; users accessing Chautauqua Creek beyond the immediate area may be trespassing on private land.