Border Trail–Green Trail, 7 sights is a 12.8-mile out-and-back in Allamuchy Mountain State Park near Saxton Falls, NJ. It climbs 1,438 ft, with sections as steep as 17% grade. It scores 24/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi610 – 1,184 ft · steepest grade: 17%13.7 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Orange Trail 40.87307, -74.80547
Nearest town Saxton Falls, NJ
Directions
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Border Trail–Green Trail, 7 sights
12.8 mi · ▲ 1,438 ft · 4 hr 59 min
Elevation 610–1,183 ft
Out & Back · Allamuchy Mountain State Park
Trailhead: Orange Trail · 40.87307, -74.80547
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:31 AM · sunset 7:27 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Orange Trail, heading SE.
- 0.6 miSharp right onto White Trail, heading SE.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading NE.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 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 NE.
- 250 ftTurn right onto Green Trail, heading E.
- 0.7 miTurn left onto Firetower Road/Fire Tower Trail, heading NE.
- 150 ftContinue straight onto Round The Firetower, heading NE.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Leeroy, heading N.
- 200 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Subaru, heading NE.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Upper Woods, heading SE.
- 0.3 miContinue straight onto Long Way Round, heading E.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Upper Woods, heading E.
- 350 ftSharp left, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Under the Mulch, heading NW.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading NW.
- 200 ftTurn left onto Working Mulch Pit Upper, heading NW.
- 1.5 miReach Orange Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.5 miTurn right, heading W.
- 200 ftTurn left, heading NW.
- 100 ftContinue straight onto Under the Mulch, heading NW.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 50 ftSharp right onto Upper Woods, heading E.
- 350 ftContinue straight onto Long Way Round, heading S.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Upper Woods, heading S.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Subaru, heading SW.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Leeroy, heading SE.
- 200 ftTurn left onto Round The Firetower, heading SE.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Firetower Road/Fire Tower Trail, heading NW.
- 150 ftTurn right onto Green Trail, heading W.
- 0.7 miTurn left onto Green/White Trail, heading SW.
- 250 ftTurn right onto White Trail, heading SW.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Fuzzy Thingz Trail, heading W.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto White Trail, heading SW.
- 0.6 miBear left, heading W.
- 450 ftTurn right, heading SW.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading S.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.5 miSharp left onto Orange Trail, heading W.
- 0.6 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
20% dirt80% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:31 AMSunset 7:27 PM
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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