Mount Penn Preserve
Ferndale Trail
2.6 mi · ▲ 500 ft · 1 hr 7 min
Ferndale Trail is a 2.6-mile out-and-back in Mount Penn Preserve near Stony Creek Mills, PA. It climbs 500 ft, with sections as steep as 24% grade. It scores 41/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
Elevation
0 mi627 – 1,017 ft · steepest grade: 24%3.3 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 40.35036, -75.87469
Nearest town Stony Creek Mills, PA
Directions
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Ferndale Trail
2.6 mi · ▲ 500 ft · 1 hr 7 min
Elevation 626–1,016 ft
Out & Back · Mount Penn Preserve
Trailhead: 40.35036, -75.87469
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:36 AM · sunset 7:31 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading E.
- 0.3 miContinue straight onto Ferndale Trail, heading NW.
- 450 ftTurn right onto Dane's Run, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.1 miTurn left onto Raw XL, heading W.
- 450 ftBear right, heading SW.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Ferndale Trail, heading SW.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Raw XL, heading SW.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 200 ftBear left onto Gravity Trail, heading W.
- 50 ftBear right onto Deer Head, heading W.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Gravity Trail, heading W.
- 0.1 miBear right onto Lanshe's Hill, heading SW.
- 150 ftBear right, heading W.
- 300 ftTurn left, heading W.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 50 ftBear right, heading SW.
- 500 ftBear left, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading W.
- 150 ftTurn right, heading NW.
- 50 ftBear left, heading W.
- 100 ftReach the turnaround, then head back the way you came.
- 50 ftBear right, heading W.
- 100 ftTurn left, heading W.
- 150 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 50 ftBear right, heading NW.
- 450 ftBear left, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading NW.
- 200 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 450 ftBear left onto Gravity Trail, heading W.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Deer Head, heading E.
- 50 ftBear left onto Gravity Trail, heading E.
- 50 ftBear right, heading E.
- 200 ftTurn left onto Raw XL, heading SE.
- 0.1 miTurn left onto Ferndale Trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Raw XL, heading S.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 450 ftTurn right, heading NE.
- 0.1 miTurn right onto Dane's Run, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 350 ftContinue straight onto Ferndale Trail, heading NE.
- 0.3 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
11% dirt89% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:36 AMSunset 7:31 PM
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