2024-10-23 12 59 01 Autumn view of the forest along the Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail between the Ridge Trail and the Tributary Trail within the Sourland Mountain Preserve in Hillsborough Township, Somerset County, New Jersey.jpg
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Maple Flats Trail & Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail is a 4-mile out-and-back in Sourland Mountain Preserve near Zion, NJ. It climbs 458 ft, with sections as steep as 20% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 17/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi118 – 528 ft · steepest grade: 20%4.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail 40.46234, -74.72831
Nearest town Zion, NJ

Directions

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Maple Flats Trail & Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail

4 mi · ▲ 458 ft · 1 hr 34 min

Elevation 118–527 ft

Out & Back · Sourland Mountain Preserve

Trailhead: Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail · 40.46234, -74.72831

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

  1. Start on Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading E.
  2. 0.9 miTurn left onto Ridge Trail, heading E.
  3. 50 ftTurn right onto Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading E.
  4. 0.3 miContinue straight onto Tributary Trail, heading NE.
  5. 50 ftBear right onto Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading NE.
  6. 0.3 miBear left onto Maple Flats Trail, heading NE.
  7. 50 ftBear right onto Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading NE.
  8. 0.2 miTurn left onto Maple Flats Trail, heading NE.
  9. 0.2 miBear left, heading N.
  10. 50 ftReach Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  11. 0.2 miTurn right onto Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading S.
  12. 0.2 miBear left onto Maple Flats Trail, heading SW.
  13. 50 ftBear right onto Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading SW.
  14. 0.3 miBear left onto Tributary Trail, heading W.
  15. 50 ftContinue straight onto Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading W.
  16. 0.3 miTurn left onto Ridge Trail, heading W.
  17. 50 ftTurn right onto Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading W.
  18. 0.9 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

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:31 AMSunset 7:26 PM

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