Looking southward at the Blackledge River from a foot bridge at the southernmost point on the border between Connecticut's Gay City State Park and Meshomasic State Forest.jpg
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Golf Course Pond & Gay City/Blackledge Falls Connector is a 4.1-mile out-and-back in Meshomasic State Forest near Buckingham, CT. The route reaches Golf Course Pond. It climbs 413 ft, with sections as steep as 18% grade. It scores 26/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi466 – 824 ft · steepest grade: 18%4.4 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 41.70466, -72.46950
Nearest town Buckingham, CT

Directions

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Golf Course Pond & Gay City/Blackledge Falls Connector

4.1 mi · ▲ 413 ft · 1 hr 34 min

Elevation 467–822 ft

Out & Back · Meshomasic State Forest

Trailhead: 41.70466, -72.46950

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:36 AM · sunset 6:53 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading S.
  2. 250 ftTurn left, heading E.
  3. 0.2 miTurn left, heading N.
  4. 0.9 miSharp right, heading N.
  5. 0.7 miSharp right, heading E.
  6. 300 ftBear right, heading S.
  7. 250 ftTurn right onto Gay City/Blackledge Falls Connector, heading S.
  8. 0.5 miTurn left, heading S.
  9. 0.3 miTurn right, heading E.
  10. 100 ftReach Golf Course Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  11. 150 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  12. 0.8 miTurn left, heading NW.
  13. 0.2 miTurn right, heading SW.
  14. 0.2 miTurn right, heading W.
  15. 100 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

52% dirt48% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:36 AMSunset 6:53 PM

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