Blockhouse Trail & Calithea Trail is a 3.3-mile out-and-back in Blockhouse Point Conservation Park near Rushville, MD. It climbs 288 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade. It scores 7/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi203 – 407 ft · steepest grade: 19%3.4 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 39.07175, -77.32795
Nearest town Rushville, MD
Directions
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Blockhouse Trail & Calithea Trail
3.3 mi · ▲ 288 ft · 1 hr 15 min
Elevation 203–406 ft
Out & Back · Blockhouse Point Conservation Park
Trailhead: 39.07175, -77.32795
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:56 AM · sunset 7:11 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading E.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Calithea Trail, heading SE.
- 0.8 miSharp left onto Blockhouse Trail, heading N.
- 0.6 miReach Calithea Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.6 miSharp right onto Calithea Trail, heading S.
- 0.8 miTurn right, heading NW.
- 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.
Weather
Sunrise 6:56 AMSunset 7:11 PM
Sunset
The best sunset spot on this hike is 1.7 mi in (~49 min). Leave by 6:02 PM for the 7:11 PM sunset. Back at your car by 8:10 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Calithea Trail–Muddy Branch Greenway Trail, 3 sights 7.2 mi · ▲ 549 ft
- Calithea Trail & Upland Woods Trail 3.2 mi · ▲ 283 ft
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal & Calithea Trail 2.7 mi · ▲ 233 ft
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal–Calithea Trail, 6 sights 6.7 mi · ▲ 605 ft
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