Devil's Pool & White Trail via Forbidden Drive is a 5.9-mile out-and-back in Wissahickon Valley Park near Tulpohocken, PA. The route reaches Devil's Pool. It climbs 490 ft. It scores 13/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi66 – 249 ft7.9 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
5.9 mi · ▲ 490 ft · 2 hr 13 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
- Start on White Trail, heading W.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading W.
- 100 ftTurn right onto Orange Trail, heading SW.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 150 ftTurn right onto Forbidden Drive, heading W.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Yellow Trail, heading NW.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading NW.
- 50 ftBear left, heading W.
- 200 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 450 ftSharp right, heading N.
- 350 ftPass Devil's Pool.
- 300 ftContinue straight onto Forbidden Drive, heading NW.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading N.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 400 ftBear right, heading N.
- 0.6 miTurn right, heading NW.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Rex Avenue, heading W.
- 250 ftTurn left onto Orange Trail, heading NW.
- 0.4 miBear right, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 250 ftTurn right onto Forbidden Drive, heading E.
- 0.5 miReach Devil's Pool, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.3 miBear left, heading NE.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 200 ftTurn right, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear left onto Orange Trail, heading NE.
- 0.4 miTurn right onto Rex Avenue, heading SE.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Forbidden Drive, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.6 miBear right, heading SE.
- 300 ftBear right, heading SE.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.5 miSharp left onto Yellow Trail, heading SE.
- 100 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 350 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 200 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Forbidden Drive, heading SE.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading S.
- 150 ftTurn right onto Orange Trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
- 100 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto White Trail, heading SE.
- 0.1 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
59% gravel35% dirt1% boardwalk5% 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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