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.
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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
- Start at the trailhead, heading SW.
- 450 ftBear left onto Unmarked mowed path, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
- 450 ftContinue straight onto Yellow Trail, heading SW.
- 350 ftTurn left onto Orange Trail, heading NW.
- 0.3 miBear right onto Red Trail, heading W.
- 0.2 miSharp right onto Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail, heading S.
- 2.7 miReach Orange Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 2.7 miSharp left onto Red Trail, heading SE.
- 0.2 miBear left onto Orange Trail, heading E.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Yellow Trail, heading NE.
- 0.1 miTurn left onto Unmarked mowed path, heading SE.
- 50 ftBear right, heading E.
- 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
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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.
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
Other ways to reach this destination
- 2 mi · out & back · via Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail
- 2.6 mi · out & back · via Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail
- 3 mi · out & back · via Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail
- 3.7 mi · out & back · via Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail
- 3.7 mi · out & back · via Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail
- 3.9 mi · out & back · via Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail
- 4.2 mi · out & back · via Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail
- 4.3 mi · out & back · via Harvard Snowmobile Club Trail
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