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Bloody Lane Trail–Sherrick Farm Trail, 3 sights is a 4.7-mile out-and-back in Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, MD. It climbs 280 ft and is mostly dirt. It scores 1/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi318 – 482 ft4.8 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Sherrick Farm Trail 39.46217, -77.73596
Nearest town Sharpsburg, MD

Directions

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Bloody Lane Trail–Sherrick Farm Trail, 3 sights

4.7 mi · ▲ 280 ft · 1 hr 42 min

Elevation 318–483 ft

Out & Back · Antietam National Battlefield

Trailhead: Sherrick Farm Trail · 39.46217, -77.73596

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:57 AM · sunset 7:13 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Sherrick Farm Trail, heading E.
  2. 0.4 miSharp left onto Three Farm Trail, heading NE.
  3. 1.6 miTurn left onto Bloody Lane Trail, heading SE.
  4. 0.3 miReach Sherrick Farm Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.3 miTurn right onto Three Farm Trail, heading NE.
  6. 1.6 miSharp right onto Sherrick Farm Trail, heading W.
  7. 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% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:57 AMSunset 7:13 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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