Lake Solitude & Highlands Trail via Columbia Trail is a 6.4-mile out-and-back in Ken Lockwood Gorge near High Bridge, NJ. The route reaches Lake Solitude. It climbs 469 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade, and is mostly gravel. It scores 28/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
Elevation
0 mi338 – 755 ft · steepest grade: 19%6.7 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Columbia Trail 40.66963, -74.89634
Nearest town High Bridge, NJ
Directions
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Lake Solitude & Highlands Trail via Columbia Trail
6.4 mi · ▲ 469 ft · 2 hr 22 min
Elevation 339–756 ft
Out & Back · Ken Lockwood Gorge
Trailhead: Columbia Trail · 40.66963, -74.89634
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:31 AM · sunset 7:27 PM
Transit-accessible: High Bridge stop 322 m from the trailhead · Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading E.
- 200 ftContinue straight onto Columbia Trail, heading E.
- 0.4 miPass Lake Solitude.
- 2.1 miContinue straight onto Highlands Trail, heading NE.
- 0.7 miReach Lake Solitude, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.7 miContinue straight onto Columbia Trail, heading E.
- 2.4 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
72% gravel4% paved24% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:31 AMSunset 7:27 PM
Good to know
- Transit-accessible: High Bridge stop 322 m from the trailhead
- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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