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Hickory Hollow Road & Southfields Branch Railway is a 4-mile out-and-back in Sterling Forest State Park near Clinton Woods, NY. It climbs 458 ft. It scores 20/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi551 – 889 ft4.1 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Hickory Hollow Road 41.24555, -74.20380
Nearest town Clinton Woods, NY

Directions

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Hickory Hollow Road & Southfields Branch Railway

4 mi · ▲ 458 ft · 1 hr 34 min

Elevation 552–890 ft

Out & Back · Sterling Forest State Park

Trailhead: Hickory Hollow Road · 41.24555, -74.20380

Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:30 AM · sunset 7:22 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Hickory Hollow Road, heading N.
  2. 1.6 miBear left onto Furnace Loop, heading E.
  3. 0.1 miBear right onto Southfields Branch Railway, heading SE.
  4. 0.4 miReach Hickory Hollow Road, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.3 miBear left onto Furnace Loop, heading W.
  6. 0.1 miBear right onto Wildcat Mountain Trail, heading W.
  7. 1.5 miArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail surface

17% dirt83% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:30 AMSunset 7:22 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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