Elk Viewing Viewpoint–Boy Scout Trail, 4 sights is a 7.1-mile out-and-back in Trexler Nature Preserve near Kernsville, PA. The route reaches Elk Viewing Viewpoint. It climbs 1,195 ft, with sections as steep as 17% grade. It scores 37/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
Elevation
0 mi390 – 738 ft · steepest grade: 17%7.6 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 40.63674, -75.61434
Nearest town Kernsville, PA
Directions
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Elk Viewing Viewpoint–Boy Scout Trail, 4 sights
7.1 mi · ▲ 1,195 ft · 2 hr 58 min
Elevation 391–738 ft
Out & Back · Trexler Nature Preserve
Trailhead: 40.63674, -75.61434
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:34 AM · sunset 7:30 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading W.
- 0.8 miContinue straight onto Trexler Border Trail, heading NE.
- 1.3 miSharp left onto Trexler Nature Trail, heading N.
- 0.4 miTurn right onto Covered Bridge Trail, heading SW.
- 100 ftContinue straight onto Elk Viewing Trail, heading W.
- 0.5 miPass Elk Viewing Viewpoint.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Boy Scout Trail, heading NW.
- 0.4 miReach Elk Viewing Viewpoint, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.4 miTurn left onto Elk Viewing Trail, heading SE.
- 450 ftTurn right, heading S.
- 0.6 miContinue straight onto Covered Bridge Trail, heading S.
- 150 ftTurn left onto Trexler Nature Trail, heading S.
- 0.4 miSharp right onto Trexler Border Trail, heading E.
- 2 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
13% dirt87% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:34 AMSunset 7:30 PM
Sunset
The best sunset spot on this hike is 1.9 mi in (~53 min). Leave by 6:17 PM for the 7:30 PM sunset. Back at your car by 8:33 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.
More from this trailhead
- Trexler Border Trail 2.2 mi · ▲ 222 ft
- Trexler Border Trail 2.5 mi · ▲ 250 ft
- Trexler Border Trail 2.8 mi · ▲ 331 ft
- Trexler Border Trail 3.5 mi · ▲ 273 ft
- Trexler Border Trail 4.1 mi · ▲ 382 ft
- Trexler Nature Trail via Trexler Border Trail 4.9 mi · ▲ 631 ft
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