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
- Start at the trailhead, heading S.
- 150 ftTurn left onto Stephens Park Road, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Orange Trail, heading SE.
- 0.6 miSharp right onto White Trail, heading NE.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading NE.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 0.5 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 0.7 miTurn right, heading NE.
- 0.3 miContinue straight onto Fuzzy Thingz Trail, heading E.
- 250 ftContinue straight onto White Trail, heading E.
- 0.1 miTurn left onto Green/White Trail, heading N.
- 250 ftTurn right onto Green Trail, heading E.
- 0.2 miBear left onto Cooler Trail, heading E.
- 0.4 miTurn right onto Skeezix, heading NW.
- 50 ftBear left onto Cooler Trail, heading NW.
- 0.5 miBear left onto Funyuns, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Cooler Trail, heading N.
- 100 ftTurn left onto Pre Cooler, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Cooler Trail, heading NE.
- 0.2 miBear left onto Trestle Trail, heading NE.
- 100 ftBear left onto Cooler Trail, heading NW.
- 50 ftSharp right onto Trestle Trail, heading NW.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Border/Mulch Pit Trail, heading N.
- 0.5 miReach Orange Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.5 miContinue straight onto Trestle Trail, heading NW.
- 0.2 miSharp left onto Cooler Trail, heading NW.
- 50 ftBear right onto Trestle Trail, heading NW.
- 100 ftBear right onto Cooler Trail, heading NW.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Pre Cooler, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Cooler Trail, heading W.
- 100 ftTurn left onto Funyuns, heading W.
- 50 ftBear right onto Cooler Trail, heading W.
- 0.5 miBear right onto Skeezix, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Cooler Trail, heading S.
- 0.4 miBear right onto Green Trail, heading S.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Green/White Trail, heading S.
- 250 ftTurn right onto White Trail, heading SE.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Fuzzy Thingz Trail, heading SE.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto White Trail, heading W.
- 0.6 miBear left, heading SW.
- 450 ftTurn right, heading SW.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.5 miSharp left onto Orange Trail, heading W.
- 0.6 miTurn left onto Stephens Park Road, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
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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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