Coxing Trail–Shongum Path, 3 sights is a 4.6-mile out-and-back in Mohonk Preserve near Lake Minnewaska, NY. It climbs 344 ft, with sections as steep as 16% grade. It scores 7/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi758 – 1,106 ft · steepest grade: 16%4.7 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 41.72236, -74.22182
Nearest town Lake Minnewaska, NY
Directions
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Coxing Trail–Shongum Path, 3 sights
4.6 mi · ▲ 344 ft · 1 hr 42 min
Elevation 759–1,105 ft
Out & Back · Mohonk Preserve
Trailhead: 41.72236, -74.22182
Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:30 AM · sunset 7:22 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Coxing Trail, heading NE.
- 0.8 miBear right onto Trapps Trail, heading E.
- 1 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Trapps Parking Access, heading NE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto West Trapps Parking Connector, heading E.
- 350 ftBear right onto Shongum Path, heading NW.
- 0.3 miReach Coxing Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.3 miBear left onto West Trapps Parking Connector, heading SE.
- 350 ftContinue straight onto Trapps Parking Access, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Trapps Trail, heading SE.
- 1 miBear left onto Coxing Trail, heading SW.
- 0.8 miTurn right, heading W.
- 0.1 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
46% gravel12% dirt42% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:30 AMSunset 7:22 PM
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