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McLean Game Refuge Beach & Salmon Brook Park Beach is a 5.4-mile out-and-back in McLean Game Refuge near The Gables, CT. The route passes Salmon Brook Park Beach, McLean Game Refuge Beach and McLean Game Refuge Beach. It climbs 294 ft. It scores 21/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi177 – 325 ft6.4 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 41.94538, -72.79678
Nearest town The Gables, CT

Directions

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McLean Game Refuge Beach & Salmon Brook Park Beach

5.4 mi · ▲ 294 ft · 1 hr 57 min

Elevation 178–326 ft

Out & Back · McLean Game Refuge

Trailhead: 41.94538, -72.79678

Weather Aug 4: sunrise 5:48 AM · sunset 8:08 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading NE.
  2. 50 ftPass Salmon Brook Park Beach.
  3. 100 ftTurn left, heading NW.
  4. 100 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  5. 0.1 miTurn right, heading NW.
  6. 50 ftBear right, heading NW.
  7. 350 ftBear left, heading NW.
  8. 450 ftSharp left, heading W.
  9. 50 ftTurn right, heading W.
  10. 0.7 miTurn right, heading SW.
  11. 0.3 miBear right, heading SE.
  12. 50 ftBear left, heading SE.
  13. 350 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  14. 0.3 miTurn right, heading SW.
  15. 50 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  16. 0.1 miPass McLean Game Refuge Beach.
  17. 0.4 miPass McLean Game Refuge Beach.
  18. 450 ftBear right, heading SW.
  19. 150 ftTurn left, heading W.
  20. 0.1 miTurn left, heading SW.
  21. 200 ftSharp left, heading SW.
  22. 0.1 miTurn left, heading W.
  23. 0.2 miReach McLean Game Refuge Beach, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  24. 0.2 miTurn right, heading NE.
  25. 0.1 miSharp right, heading NE.
  26. 200 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  27. 0.1 miTurn right, heading S.
  28. 150 ftBear left, heading S.
  29. 0.6 miTurn right, heading E.
  30. 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
  31. 0.3 miTurn left, heading N.
  32. 400 ftBear right, heading E.
  33. 50 ftBear left, heading E.
  34. 0.3 miTurn left, heading N.
  35. 0.7 miTurn left, heading NE.
  36. 50 ftSharp right, heading NE.
  37. 450 ftBear right, heading SE.
  38. 350 ftBear left, heading E.
  39. 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
  40. 0.1 miTurn right, heading NE.
  41. 100 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  42. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

1% grass99% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 5:48 AMSunset 8:08 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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