Mirror Lake & Hubgard Park Pond is a 4.6-mile out-and-back in City of Meriden Watershed Reserve Land near Pratts Corner, CT. The route passes Mirror Lake before reaching Hubgard Park Pond at the turnaround, 2.2 miles in. It climbs 523 ft, with sections as steep as 21% grade. It scores 6/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi285 – 607 ft · steepest grade: 21%4.9 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 41.56834, -72.84942
Nearest town Pratts Corner, CT
Directions
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Mirror Lake & Hubgard Park Pond
4.6 mi · ▲ 523 ft · 1 hr 48 min
Elevation 285–609 ft
Out & Back · City of Meriden Watershed Reserve Land
Trailhead: 41.56834, -72.84942
Weather Aug 4: sunrise 5:50 AM · sunset 8:07 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading S.
- 1.1 miTurn right, heading S.
- 50 ftBear left, heading SW.
- 150 ftBear left, heading SW.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading E.
- 300 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 0.4 miPass Mirror Lake.
- 100 ftBear left, heading SE.
- 150 ftBear left, heading E.
- 50 ftBear right, heading E.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.3 miPass Hubgard Park Pond.
- 0.1 miReach Mirror Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 0.1 miBear left, heading E.
- 50 ftBear right, heading E.
- 150 ftBear right, heading E.
- 0.4 miTurn right, heading W.
- 350 ftTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.2 miBear right, heading NW.
- 200 ftBear right, heading N.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 1 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
48% dirt52% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 5:50 AMSunset 8:07 PM
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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