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Musconetcong Gorge Preserve

Highlands Trail / Yellow Trail & Turquoise Blazes

4 mi · ▲ 500 ft · 1 hr 35 min

Highlands Trail / Yellow Trail & Turquoise Blazes is a 4-mile out-and-back in Musconetcong Gorge Preserve near Hughesville, NJ. It climbs 500 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 1/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi236 – 535 ft · steepest grade: 19%4.0 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Turquoise Blazes 40.61407, -75.15024
Nearest town Hughesville, NJ
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Highlands Trail / Yellow Trail & Turquoise Blazes

4 mi · ▲ 500 ft · 1 hr 35 min

Elevation 237–533 ft

Out & Back · Musconetcong Gorge Preserve

Trailhead: Turquoise Blazes · 40.61407, -75.15024

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 7:28 PM

  1. Start on Turquoise Blazes, heading N.
  2. 1.5 miBear right onto Blue Trail, heading SE.
  3. 0.5 miReach Turquoise Blazes, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  4. 0.5 miBear left onto Turquoise Blazes, heading SW.
  5. 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 map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/highlands-trail-yellow-trail-turquoise-blazes-out-back-6-km

Trail surface

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:32 AMSunset 7:28 PM

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