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Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail–Orange Trail, 3 sights is a 6.7-mile out-and-back in Fruitlands Museum near Camp Green Eyrie, MA. It climbs 461 ft and is mostly dirt. It scores 3/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi240 – 446 ft7.0 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 42.50707, -71.60912
Nearest town Camp Green Eyrie, MA

Directions

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Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail–Orange Trail, 3 sights

6.7 mi · ▲ 461 ft · 2 hr 28 min

Elevation 240–446 ft

Out & Back · Fruitlands Museum

Trailhead: 42.50707, -71.60912

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 6:49 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SW.
  2. 450 ftBear left onto Unmarked mowed path, heading S.
  3. 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  4. 450 ftContinue straight onto Yellow Trail, heading SW.
  5. 350 ftTurn left onto Orange Trail, heading NW.
  6. 0.3 miBear right onto Red Trail, heading W.
  7. 0.2 miSharp right onto Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail, heading S.
  8. 2.7 miReach Orange Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  9. 2.7 miSharp left onto Red Trail, heading SE.
  10. 0.2 miBear left onto Orange Trail, heading E.
  11. 0.2 miTurn right onto Yellow Trail, heading NE.
  12. 0.1 miTurn left onto Unmarked mowed path, heading SE.
  13. 50 ftBear right, heading E.
  14. 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 surface

96% dirt4% grass

Weather

Sunrise 6:32 AMSunset 6:49 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is right at the trailhead, so there is no walk out. Be there by 6:29 PM to have the sun's last 20 minutes of sky before it sets at 6:49 PM. Your car is right there — dark at 7:17 PM.

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