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Lake Carnegie & Millstone Reservoir via Delaware & Raritan Canal Towpath is an 8.4-mile out-and-back near Rocky Hill, NJ. The route passes Millstone Reservoir before reaching Lake Carnegie at the turnaround, 4.1 miles in. It is mostly level, with 0 ft of elevation gain, and mostly gravel. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi43 – 59 ft8.7 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: D&R Canal TowpathTrailhead 40.39932, -74.62775
Nearest town Rocky Hill, NJ

Directions

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Lake Carnegie & Millstone Reservoir via Delaware & Raritan Canal Towpath

8.4 mi · ▲ 0 ft · 2 hr 48 min

Elevation 44–59 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: D&R Canal TowpathTrailhead · 40.39932, -74.62775

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:31 AM · sunset 7:26 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Delaware & Raritan Canal Towpath, heading S.
  2. 4.1 miPass Millstone Reservoir.
  3. 50 ftTurn left onto Delaware River Heritage Trail, heading SW.
  4. 100 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  5. 50 ftBear left, heading S.
  6. 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
  7. 0.1 miReach Lake Carnegie, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  8. 0.1 miTurn right, heading NE.
  9. 50 ftBear right, heading NE.
  10. 150 ftTurn right onto Delaware & Raritan Canal Towpath, heading SW.
  11. 2.2 miBear left, heading NE.
  12. 50 ftTurn right, heading NE.
  13. 1.9 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

96% gravel1% paved3% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:31 AMSunset 7:26 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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