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Baldwin Run Road & Gameland Road via Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail is a 12.3-mile out-and-back in State Game Lands Number 42 near Westwood, PA. It climbs 2,758 ft, with sections as steep as 21% grade. It scores 83/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi1,280 – 2,720 ft · steepest grade: 21%12.6 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 40.32237, -78.97847
Nearest town Westwood, PA

Directions

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Baldwin Run Road & Gameland Road via Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail

12.3 mi · ▲ 2,758 ft · 5 hr 29 min

Elevation 1,280–2,719 ft

Out & Back · State Game Lands Number 42

Trailhead: 40.32237, -78.97847

Weather Sep 6: sunrise 6:49 AM · sunset 7:42 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SW.
  2. 0.4 miTurn right, heading NW.
  3. 1.1 miTurn left, heading W.
  4. 1.3 miContinue straight onto Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail, heading W.
  5. 50 ftContinue straight onto Gameland Road, heading W.
  6. 1.6 miTurn right onto Baldwin Run Road, heading W.
  7. 1.7 miReach Gameland Road, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  8. 1.7 miTurn left onto Gameland Road, heading SE.
  9. 1.6 miContinue straight onto Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail, heading E.
  10. 1.3 miTurn right, heading E.
  11. 1.1 miTurn left, heading SE.
  12. 0.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

100% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:49 AMSunset 7:42 PM

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