Mount Toby Wildlife Management Area
Downspout & Link Trail via Robert Frost Trail (Orange)
8.8 mi · ▲ 1,504 ft · 3 hr 41 min
Downspout & Link Trail via Robert Frost Trail (Orange) is an 8.8-mile out-and-back in Mount Toby Wildlife Management Area near Leverett Station, MA. It climbs 1,504 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 40/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
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Downspout & Link Trail via Robert Frost Trail (Orange)
8.8 mi · ▲ 1,504 ft · 3 hr 41 min
Elevation 305–937 ft
Out & Back · Mount Toby Wildlife Management Area
Trailhead: 42.44657, -72.53774
Weather Sep 20: Heavy drizzle, high 58°F / low 52° · precip 75% · wind 6 mph · sunrise 6:36 AM · sunset 6:53 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading E.
- 350 ftBear right, heading NE.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 200 ftTurn right onto Robert Frost Trail (Orange), heading E.
- 250 ftBear left, heading N.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Reservoir Road, heading NW.
- 1.9 miContinue straight onto Middle Mountain Road, heading N.
- 200 ftTurn right onto Link Trail, heading NW.
- 0.6 miTurn left onto Downspout, heading N.
- 0.9 miTurn left onto North Mountain Road, heading SW.
- 0.3 miBear left onto Downspout, heading S.
- 50 ftReach Link Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 50 ftBear right onto North Mountain Road, heading SW.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Downspout, heading E.
- 0.9 miTurn right onto Link Trail, heading NE.
- 0.6 miTurn left onto Middle Mountain Road, heading S.
- 2 miTurn left, heading W.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading E.
- 0.1 miBear right onto Robert Frost Trail (Orange), heading E.
- 300 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 200 ftTurn right, heading S.
- 150 ftBear left, heading SW.
- 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
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- 2.1 mi · out & back · via Robert Frost Trail (Orange)
- 2.2 mi · out & back · via Robert Frost Trail (Orange)
- 2.3 mi · out & back · via Robert Frost Trail (Orange)
- 2.4 mi · out & back · via Robert Frost Trail (Orange)
- 2.4 mi · out & back · via Robert Frost Trail (Orange)
- 2.5 mi · out & back · via Robert Frost Trail (Orange)
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