Green Ash Trail & White Oak Trail via Yellow Poplar
3.2 mi · ▲ 394 ft · 1 hr 16 min
Green Ash Trail & White Oak Trail via Yellow Poplar is a 3.2-mile out-and-back in Gambrill State Park near Hawbottom Heights, MD. It climbs 394 ft, with sections as steep as 16% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 23/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi1,339 – 1,641 ft · steepest grade: 16%3.5 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Yellow Poplar 39.48190, -77.49793
Nearest town Hawbottom Heights, MD
Directions
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Green Ash Trail & White Oak Trail via Yellow Poplar
3.2 mi · ▲ 394 ft · 1 hr 16 min
Elevation 1,339–1,640 ft
Out & Back · Gambrill State Park
Trailhead: Yellow Poplar · 39.48190, -77.49793
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:56 AM · sunset 7:12 PM
- Start on Yellow Poplar, heading SE.
- 1 miTurn left, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
- 0.1 miBear left onto Green Ash - Yellow Poplar, heading SW.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Yellow Poplar, heading S.
- 0.3 miBear right onto White Oak Trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Green Ash Trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right onto White Oak Trail, heading E.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Catoctin - Black, heading E.
- 150 ftReach White Oak Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 150 ftContinue straight onto White Oak Trail, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Green Ash Trail, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading E.
- 50 ftTurn right onto White Oak Trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftBear left onto Yellow Poplar, heading SE.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Green Ash - Yellow Poplar, heading NW.
- 0.2 miBear right, heading N.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Yellow Poplar, heading N.
- 0.9 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
93% dirt1% gravel6% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:56 AMSunset 7:12 PM
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