Hunting Creek Lake & Cunningham Falls State Park Beach via Hog Rock Loop Trail
4.4 mi · ▲ 742 ft · 1 hr 50 min
Hunting Creek Lake & Cunningham Falls State Park Beach via Hog Rock Loop Trail is a 4.4-mile out-and-back in Catoctin Mountain Park near Flint, MD. The route passes Cunningham Falls State Park Beach and Hunting Creek Lake before reaching Cunningham Falls State Park Beach at the turnaround, 2.2 miles in. It climbs 742 ft, with sections as steep as 27% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 9/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Hunting Creek Lake & Cunningham Falls State Park Beach via Hog Rock Loop Trail
4.4 mi · ▲ 742 ft · 1 hr 50 min
Elevation 917–1,428 ft
Out & Back · Catoctin Mountain Park
Trailhead: 39.64764, -77.44816
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 N.
- 0.3 miSharp right onto Hog Rock Loop Trail, heading E.
- 1.3 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 400 ftTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.3 miPass Cunningham Falls State Park Beach.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading S.
- 0.1 miPass Cunningham Falls State Park Beach.
- 50 ftReach Hunting Creek Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading E.
- 1.8 miSharp left, heading NW.
- 0.2 miArrive 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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Good to know
- Dogs allowed on leash
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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