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Millbrook Mountain–Awosting Falls, 19 sights is a 12.9-mile out-and-back in Mohonk Preserve near Lake Minnewaska, NY. The route passes Awosting Falls, Sunset Carriage Viewpoint, Lake Minnewaska Beach and 9 more. It climbs 3,274 ft, with sections as steep as 33% grade. It scores 22/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi440 – 1,775 ft · steepest grade: 33%14.4 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Lower Awosting Carriage Road (Black) 41.73361, -74.24477
Nearest town Lake Minnewaska, NY

Directions

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Millbrook Mountain–Awosting Falls, 19 sights

12.9 mi · ▲ 3,274 ft · 5 hr 56 min

Elevation 440–1,775 ft

Out & Back · Mohonk Preserve

Trailhead: Lower Awosting Carriage Road (Black) · 41.73361, -74.24477

Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:30 AM · sunset 7:22 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Lower Awosting Carriage Road (Black), heading NE.
  2. 200 ftBear right, heading NE.
  3. 150 ftBear right onto Awosting Falls Connection, heading E.
  4. 0.3 miTurn left onto Awosting Falls Carriage Road, heading SE.
  5. 50 ftPass Awosting Falls.
  6. 50 ftBear right onto Sunset Carriage Road, heading E.
  7. 0.6 miPass Sunset Carriage Viewpoint.
  8. 50 ftPass Lake Minnewaska Beach.
  9. 50 ftPass Scuba Diving Access Area.
  10. 150 ftBear right, heading NE.
  11. 100 ftPass Lake Minnewaska.
  12. 350 ftTurn right, heading E.
  13. 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
  14. 250 ftContinue straight onto Lake Minnewaska Carriage Road, heading E.
  15. 500 ftContinue straight onto Dry Bridge, heading E.
  16. 50 ftContinue straight onto Lake Minnewaska Carriage Road, heading E.
  17. 400 ftPass Lake Minnewaska Carriage Viewpoint.
  18. 200 ftTurn right, heading E.
  19. 250 ftTurn right, heading S.
  20. 0.2 miPass Lake Minnewaska Carriage Viewpoint.
  21. 350 ftContinue straight onto Millbrook Mountain Trail, heading SE.
  22. 1 miPass Millbrook Mountain.
  23. 300 ftBear left, heading SE.
  24. 50 ftTurn left onto Millbrook Ridge Trail, heading SE.
  25. 2.6 miPass Yum Yum Yab Yum.
  26. 50 ftPass Up Yours.
  27. 0.3 miPass Welcome Boulder.
  28. 100 ftSharp right onto Trapps Trail, heading NE.
  29. 200 ftTurn left, heading NE.
  30. 50 ftTurn right onto Trapps Parking Access, heading NE.
  31. 50 ftBear right, heading NE.
  32. 50 ftContinue straight onto Undercliff Carriage Road, heading NE.
  33. 0.4 miTurn left onto Baby / Easy O, heading E.
  34. 50 ftTurn right onto Cliff base trail, heading E.
  35. 350 ftTurn right onto Strictly's, heading NE.
  36. 50 ftTurn left onto East Trapps Connector (Stairmaster), heading E.
  37. 500 ftPass Dragonfly Pond.
  38. 200 ftContinue straight onto East Trapps Connector, heading E.
  39. 450 ftTurn left onto Foothills Trail, heading E.
  40. 0.2 miSharp left, heading NE.
  41. 300 ftTurn right onto Blue Trail, heading NE.
  42. 350 ftReach Millbrook Mountain, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  43. 350 ftTurn left onto Foothills Trail, heading S.
  44. 0.2 miTurn right onto Laverne Thompson Nature Trail, heading NE.
  45. 0.2 miTurn right onto Strictly's, heading S.
  46. 50 ftTurn left onto Cliff base trail, heading S.
  47. 350 ftTurn left onto Baby / Easy O, heading S.
  48. 50 ftTurn right onto Undercliff Carriage Road, heading S.
  49. 0.4 miBear left onto Trapps Parking Access, heading NE.
  50. 50 ftTurn left, heading NE.
  51. 50 ftTurn right onto Trapps Trail, heading N.
  52. 200 ftSharp left onto Millbrook Ridge Trail, heading NE.
  53. 0.2 miBear right, heading NW.
  54. 2.6 miTurn right, heading SW.
  55. 50 ftBear right onto Millbrook Mountain Trail, heading SW.
  56. 1.1 miContinue straight onto Lake Minnewaska Carriage Road, heading NW.
  57. 0.2 miTurn right, heading N.
  58. 250 ftTurn left, heading NW.
  59. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Dry Bridge, heading N.
  60. 50 ftContinue straight onto Lake Minnewaska Carriage Road, heading NW.
  61. 0.1 miTurn right, heading N.
  62. 50 ftTurn left, heading NW.
  63. 400 ftBear left onto Sunset Carriage Road, heading N.
  64. 0.6 miBear left onto Awosting Falls Carriage Road, heading NW.
  65. 50 ftTurn right, heading NW.
  66. 0.3 miBear left, heading NW.
  67. 150 ftBear left onto Lower Awosting Carriage Road (Black), heading N.
  68. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

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Trail surface

28% gravel18% dirt1% rock1% grass52% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:30 AMSunset 7:22 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is 1.2 mi in (~37 min). Leave by 6:25 PM for the 7:22 PM sunset. Back at your car by 8:06 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.

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Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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