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Lake Shawanni–Coss Road, 5 sights is a 10-mile out-and-back in Stokes State Forest near Wallpack Center, NJ. The route reaches Lake Shawanni at the turnaround, 5 miles in. It climbs 757 ft. It scores 76/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi722 – 1,106 ft10.0 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Red Maple Trail 41.15841, -74.85879
Nearest town Wallpack Center, NJ

Directions

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Lake Shawanni–Coss Road, 5 sights

10 mi · ▲ 757 ft · 3 hr 43 min

Elevation 722–1,105 ft

Out & Back · Stokes State Forest

Trailhead: Red Maple Trail · 41.15841, -74.85879

Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:24 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Red Maple Trail, heading SE.
  2. 1.7 miTurn left onto Woods Road/Red Maple Trail, heading E.
  3. 1.5 miSharp left onto Coss Road/Red Maple Trail, heading NW.
  4. 0.1 miBear left onto Coss Road, heading W.
  5. 1.1 miSharp left onto Stoll Trail, heading S.
  6. 0.6 miReach Lake Shawanni, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  7. 0.6 miSharp right onto Coss Road, heading SE.
  8. 1.1 miBear right onto Coss Road/Red Maple Trail, heading SE.
  9. 0.1 miSharp right onto Woods Road/Red Maple Trail, heading S.
  10. 1.5 miTurn right onto Red Maple Trail, heading NW.
  11. 1.7 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

40% dirt27% gravel33% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:33 AMSunset 7:24 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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