Hog Rock Loop Trail is a 3.1-mile out-and-back in Catoctin Mountain Park near Altogether, MD. It climbs 445 ft, with sections as steep as 21% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 6/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi824 – 1,276 ft · steepest grade: 21%3.2 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 39.62624, -77.44100
Nearest town Altogether, MD
Directions
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Hog Rock Loop Trail
3.1 mi · ▲ 445 ft · 1 hr 15 min
Elevation 823–1,276 ft
Out & Back · Catoctin Mountain Park
Trailhead: 39.62624, -77.44100
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:56 AM · sunset 7:12 PM
Dogs allowed on leash · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading W.
- 100 ftContinue straight onto Gateway Trail, heading W.
- 0.8 miTurn right onto Hog Rock Loop Trail, heading NE.
- 0.7 miTurn left, heading N.
- 50 ftReach the turnaround, then head back the way you came.
- 0.7 miTurn left onto Gateway Trail, heading SW.
- 0.8 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
99% dirt1% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:56 AMSunset 7:12 PM
Good to know
- Dogs allowed on leash
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Cunningham Falls–Hunting Creek Lake, 4 beaches 5.2 mi · ▲ 645 ft
- Gateway Trail 2.4 mi · ▲ 390 ft
- Frank Bentz Memorial Lake & Gateway Trail 3.4 mi · ▲ 1,160 ft
- Cunningham Falls–Hog Rock Loop, 4 viewpoints 7.3 mi · ▲ 1,438 ft
- Gateway Trail Loop 3.5 mi · ▲ 779 ft
- Gateway Trail Loop 3.4 mi · ▲ 782 ft
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