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Ballas Trail–Bushkill Township Trail, 5 sights is an 11.8-mile out-and-back in Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center near Filetown, PA. It climbs 496 ft. It scores 9/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi423 – 676 ft12.6 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 40.78815, -75.29776
Nearest town Filetown, PA

Directions

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Ballas Trail–Bushkill Township Trail, 5 sights

11.8 mi · ▲ 496 ft · 4 hr 11 min

Elevation 424–677 ft

Out & Back · Jacobsburg Environmental Education Center

Trailhead: 40.78815, -75.29776

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:29 PM

Dogs allowed on leash · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading S.
  2. 500 ftContinue straight onto Homestead Trail (blue blazed), heading E.
  3. 0.3 miTurn right, heading SE.
  4. 300 ftBear left, heading S.
  5. 50 ftTurn right onto Henry's Woods Trail (orange blazed), heading S.
  6. 0.7 miSharp left onto Jacobsburg Trail (red blazed), heading SE.
  7. 1.2 miBear right onto Sober's Run Connector Trail (yellow/green blazed), heading N.
  8. 0.8 miBear right onto Sober's Run Main Loop Trail (green blazed), heading S.
  9. 0.4 miTurn right onto Bushkill Township Trail, heading NW.
  10. 1.9 miTurn right, heading N.
  11. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Ballas Trail, heading E.
  12. 0.2 miReach Henry's Woods Trail (orange blazed), then turn around and head back the way you came.
  13. 0.5 miTurn left onto Bushkill Township Trail, heading N.
  14. 1.9 miTurn left onto Sober's Run Main Loop Trail (green blazed), heading S.
  15. 0.4 miBear left onto Sober's Run Connector Trail (yellow/green blazed), heading SE.
  16. 0.8 miBear left onto Jacobsburg Trail (red blazed), heading E.
  17. 1.2 miSharp right onto Henry's Woods Trail (orange blazed), heading S.
  18. 0.7 miTurn left, heading W.
  19. 50 ftBear right, heading W.
  20. 300 ftTurn left onto Homestead Trail (blue blazed), heading SW.
  21. 100 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  22. 0.2 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

39% gravel6% dirt5% paved50% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:33 AMSunset 7:29 PM

Good to know

  • Dogs allowed on leash
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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