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Devil's Pool & White Trail via Forbidden Drive is a 4.1-mile out-and-back in Wissahickon Valley Park near Tulpohocken, PA. The route reaches Devil's Pool. It climbs 490 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade, and is mostly gravel. It scores 9/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi66 – 249 ft · steepest grade: 19%5.7 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: White Trail 40.03782, -75.20347
Nearest town Tulpohocken, PA

Directions

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Devil's Pool & White Trail via Forbidden Drive

4.1 mi · ▲ 490 ft · 1 hr 37 min

Elevation 64–249 ft

Out & Back · Wissahickon Valley Park

Trailhead: White Trail · 40.03782, -75.20347

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:28 PM

Dogs allowed on leash · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on White Trail, heading W.
  2. 0.4 miTurn left, heading W.
  3. 100 ftTurn right onto Orange Trail, heading SW.
  4. 50 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  5. 150 ftTurn right onto Forbidden Drive, heading W.
  6. 0.1 miTurn left, heading NW.
  7. 0.1 miTurn right onto Yellow Trail, heading NW.
  8. 250 ftTurn left, heading NW.
  9. 50 ftBear left, heading W.
  10. 200 ftTurn right, heading W.
  11. 450 ftSharp right, heading N.
  12. 350 ftPass Devil's Pool.
  13. 300 ftContinue straight onto Forbidden Drive, heading NW.
  14. 0.3 miTurn right, heading N.
  15. 150 ftTurn left, heading N.
  16. 50 ftTurn right, heading N.
  17. 400 ftBear right, heading N.
  18. 0.6 miTurn right, heading NW.
  19. 0.1 miReach Devil's Pool, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  20. 0.1 miTurn right, heading N.
  21. 0.6 miBear right, heading SW.
  22. 250 ftBear right, heading SW.
  23. 150 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  24. 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  25. 0.5 miSharp left onto Yellow Trail, heading E.
  26. 150 ftTurn right, heading S.
  27. 350 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  28. 250 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  29. 250 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  30. 0.1 miTurn right onto Forbidden Drive, heading S.
  31. 0.1 miTurn left, heading S.
  32. 150 ftTurn right onto Orange Trail, heading S.
  33. 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
  34. 100 ftTurn right, heading S.
  35. 50 ftContinue straight onto White Trail, heading S.
  36. 0.2 miArrive back at the trailhead.

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Trail surface

66% gravel32% dirt2% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:33 AMSunset 7:28 PM

Good to know

  • Dogs allowed on leash
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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