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Browns Farm Nature Loop & Browns Farm Trail via Owens Creek Horse Trail is a 3.7-mile out-and-back in Catoctin Mountain Park near Manahan Ranch Estates, MD. It climbs 524 ft. It scores 47/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi1,309 – 1,572 ft3.8 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 39.65532, -77.47732
Nearest town Manahan Ranch Estates, MD

Directions

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Browns Farm Nature Loop & Browns Farm Trail via Owens Creek Horse Trail

3.7 mi · ▲ 524 ft · 1 hr 30 min

Elevation 1,309–1,572 ft

Out & Back · Catoctin Mountain Park

Trailhead: 39.65532, -77.47732

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:56 AM · sunset 7:12 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SW.
  2. 50 ftSharp left onto Catoctin National Recreation Trail, heading S.
  3. 1.1 miTurn left onto Browns Farm Nature Loop, heading S.
  4. 0.3 miTurn left onto Browns Farm Trail, heading S.
  5. 0.5 miReach Browns Farm Nature Loop, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  6. 0.5 miTurn right onto Browns Farm Nature Loop, heading N.
  7. 0.3 miTurn right onto Owens Creek Horse Trail, heading N.
  8. 1.1 miSharp right, heading N.
  9. 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

59% dirt41% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:56 AMSunset 7:12 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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