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ChesLen Preserve

Gray - Other Trails–Lost Trail Road, 6 sights

7 mi · ▲ 689 ft · 2 hr 41 min

Gray - Other Trails–Lost Trail Road, 6 sights is a 7-mile out-and-back in ChesLen Preserve near Embreeville, PA. It climbs 689 ft and is mostly dirt. It scores 27/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi210 – 492 ft7.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Purple Loop 39.93666, -75.72972
Nearest town Embreeville, PA
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Gray - Other Trails–Lost Trail Road, 6 sights

7 mi · ▲ 689 ft · 2 hr 41 min

Elevation 209–491 ft

Out & Back · ChesLen Preserve

Trailhead: Purple Loop · 39.93666, -75.72972

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:35 AM · sunset 7:30 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Purple Loop, heading SE.
  2. 50 ftContinue straight onto Peter O. Hausmann Trail (Red), heading S.
  3. 0.8 miTurn left, heading SW.
  4. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Peter O. Hausmann Trail/Yellow Trail, heading S.
  5. 0.2 miTurn left onto Yellow Loop, heading SW.
  6. 0.1 miContinue straight onto Gray - Other Trails, heading S.
  7. 0.6 miTurn left onto Peter O. Hausmann Trail, heading S.
  8. 1.2 miContinue straight onto Lost Trail Road, heading NE.
  9. 500 ftContinue straight onto Gray - Other Trails, heading N.
  10. 50 ftBear right onto Peter O. Hausmann Trail, heading N.
  11. 0.9 miSharp right onto Yellow Loop, heading N.
  12. 1.3 miBear right onto Gray - Other Trails, heading N.
  13. 0.5 miTurn right, heading N.
  14. 0.4 miTurn right onto Peter O. Hausmann Trail (Red), heading SW.
  15. 0.6 miContinue straight onto Purple Loop, heading NW.
  16. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/gray-other-trails-gray-other-trails-out-back-8-sights-11-km-dcc0

Trail surface

84% dirt9% gravel7% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:35 AMSunset 7:30 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is 2.9 mi in (~83 min). Leave by 5:47 PM for the 7:30 PM sunset. Back at your car by 9:01 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.

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