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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

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
  2. 50 ftContinue straight onto Orange Trail, heading SE.
  3. 0.6 miSharp right onto White Trail, heading SE.
  4. 0.5 miTurn right, heading NE.
  5. 150 ftTurn left, heading E.
  6. 0.3 miTurn left, heading SE.
  7. 0.5 miTurn left, heading NE.
  8. 0.7 miTurn right, heading NE.
  9. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Fuzzy Thingz Trail, heading E.
  10. 250 ftContinue straight onto White Trail, heading E.
  11. 0.1 miTurn left onto Green/White Trail, heading NE.
  12. 250 ftTurn right onto Green Trail, heading E.
  13. 0.7 miTurn left onto Firetower Road/Fire Tower Trail, heading NE.
  14. 150 ftContinue straight onto Round The Firetower, heading NE.
  15. 0.2 miTurn right onto Leeroy, heading N.
  16. 200 ftTurn left, heading N.
  17. 50 ftContinue straight onto Subaru, heading NE.
  18. 0.2 miTurn left onto Upper Woods, heading SE.
  19. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Long Way Round, heading E.
  20. 50 ftContinue straight onto Upper Woods, heading E.
  21. 350 ftSharp left, heading N.
  22. 50 ftTurn right onto Under the Mulch, heading NW.
  23. 0.2 miTurn right, heading NW.
  24. 200 ftTurn left onto Working Mulch Pit Upper, heading NW.
  25. 1.5 miReach Orange Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  26. 1.5 miTurn right, heading W.
  27. 200 ftTurn left, heading NW.
  28. 100 ftContinue straight onto Under the Mulch, heading NW.
  29. 0.2 miTurn left, heading SE.
  30. 50 ftSharp right onto Upper Woods, heading E.
  31. 350 ftContinue straight onto Long Way Round, heading S.
  32. 50 ftContinue straight onto Upper Woods, heading S.
  33. 0.3 miTurn right onto Subaru, heading SW.
  34. 0.2 miTurn right onto Leeroy, heading SE.
  35. 200 ftTurn left onto Round The Firetower, heading SE.
  36. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Firetower Road/Fire Tower Trail, heading NW.
  37. 150 ftTurn right onto Green Trail, heading W.
  38. 0.7 miTurn left onto Green/White Trail, heading SW.
  39. 250 ftTurn right onto White Trail, heading SW.
  40. 0.1 miContinue straight onto Fuzzy Thingz Trail, heading W.
  41. 0.3 miTurn left onto White Trail, heading SW.
  42. 0.6 miBear left, heading W.
  43. 450 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  44. 0.5 miTurn right, heading S.
  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 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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