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Boundary Line Trail & Pine Hill Trail via Bear Swamp Trail is a 3-mile out-and-back near Pleasant View Summit, PA. It climbs 323 ft, with sections as steep as 15% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 87/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi2,008 – 2,225 ft · steepest grade: 15%3.1 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Pine Hill Trail 41.23768, -75.63510
Nearest town Pleasant View Summit, PA

Directions

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Boundary Line Trail & Pine Hill Trail via Bear Swamp Trail

3 mi · ▲ 323 ft · 1 hr 10 min

Elevation 2,008–2,226 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Pine Hill Trail · 41.23768, -75.63510

Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:36 AM · sunset 7:27 PM

  1. Start on Pine Hill Trail, heading S.
  2. 0.7 miSharp right onto Bear Swamp Trail, heading W.
  3. 0.1 miTurn right onto Frank Gantz Trail, heading W.
  4. 0.7 miTurn right onto Boundary Line Trail, heading N.
  5. 50 ftReach Pine Hill Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  6. 100 ftTurn left onto Frank Gantz Trail, heading NW.
  7. 0.7 miTurn left onto Bear Swamp Trail, heading E.
  8. 0.1 miSharp left onto Pine Hill Trail, heading NE.
  9. 0.6 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

90% dirt10% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:36 AMSunset 7:27 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is 0.0 mi in (~2 min). Leave by 7:05 PM for the 7:27 PM sunset. Back at your car by 7:44 PM — 12 min before dark. Trailhead visible from the viewpoint

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