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Border/Mulch Pit Trail–Cooler Trail, 6 sights is a 10.4-mile out-and-back in Allamuchy Mountain State Park near Saxton Falls, NJ. It climbs 1,428 ft, with sections as steep as 20% grade. It scores 24/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi604 – 1,181 ft · steepest grade: 20%11.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Red Trail/Patriots' Path/Highlands Trail 40.87382, -74.80551
Nearest town Saxton Falls, NJ

Directions

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Border/Mulch Pit Trail–Cooler Trail, 6 sights

10.4 mi · ▲ 1,428 ft · 4 hr 11 min

Elevation 603–1,181 ft

Out & Back · Allamuchy Mountain State Park

Trailhead: Red Trail/Patriots' Path/Highlands Trail · 40.87382, -74.80551

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:31 AM · sunset 7:27 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading S.
  2. 150 ftTurn left onto Stephens Park Road, heading SE.
  3. 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  4. 50 ftContinue straight onto Orange Trail, heading SE.
  5. 0.6 miSharp right onto White Trail, heading NE.
  6. 0.5 miTurn right, heading NE.
  7. 150 ftTurn left, heading NE.
  8. 0.3 miTurn left, heading SE.
  9. 0.5 miTurn left, heading NE.
  10. 0.7 miTurn right, heading NE.
  11. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Fuzzy Thingz Trail, heading E.
  12. 250 ftContinue straight onto White Trail, heading E.
  13. 0.1 miTurn left onto Green/White Trail, heading N.
  14. 250 ftTurn right onto Green Trail, heading E.
  15. 0.2 miBear left onto Cooler Trail, heading E.
  16. 0.4 miTurn right onto Skeezix, heading NW.
  17. 50 ftBear left onto Cooler Trail, heading NW.
  18. 0.5 miBear left onto Funyuns, heading N.
  19. 50 ftTurn right onto Cooler Trail, heading N.
  20. 100 ftTurn left onto Pre Cooler, heading NE.
  21. 50 ftTurn right onto Cooler Trail, heading NE.
  22. 0.2 miBear left onto Trestle Trail, heading NE.
  23. 100 ftBear left onto Cooler Trail, heading NW.
  24. 50 ftSharp right onto Trestle Trail, heading NW.
  25. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Border/Mulch Pit Trail, heading N.
  26. 0.5 miReach Orange Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  27. 0.5 miContinue straight onto Trestle Trail, heading NW.
  28. 0.2 miSharp left onto Cooler Trail, heading NW.
  29. 50 ftBear right onto Trestle Trail, heading NW.
  30. 100 ftBear right onto Cooler Trail, heading NW.
  31. 0.2 miTurn left onto Pre Cooler, heading W.
  32. 50 ftTurn right onto Cooler Trail, heading W.
  33. 100 ftTurn left onto Funyuns, heading W.
  34. 50 ftBear right onto Cooler Trail, heading W.
  35. 0.5 miBear right onto Skeezix, heading S.
  36. 50 ftTurn left onto Cooler Trail, heading S.
  37. 0.4 miBear right onto Green Trail, heading S.
  38. 0.2 miTurn left onto Green/White Trail, heading S.
  39. 250 ftTurn right onto White Trail, heading SE.
  40. 0.1 miContinue straight onto Fuzzy Thingz Trail, heading SE.
  41. 0.3 miTurn left onto White Trail, heading W.
  42. 0.6 miBear left, heading SW.
  43. 450 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  44. 0.5 miTurn right, heading SE.
  45. 0.3 miTurn right, heading SW.
  46. 150 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  47. 0.5 miSharp left onto Orange Trail, heading W.
  48. 0.6 miTurn left onto Stephens Park Road, heading W.
  49. 50 ftTurn right, heading W.
  50. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail surface

19% dirt81% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:31 AMSunset 7:27 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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