Mount Minsi & Lenape Lake via Appalachian Trail is a 3.8-mile out-and-back near Delaware Water Gap, PA. The route passes Lenape Lake before reaching Mount Minsi at the turnaround, 1.9 miles in. It climbs 1,113 ft, with sections as steep as 29% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 5/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi400 – 1,460 ft · steepest grade: 29%4.0 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 40.97860, -75.13855
Nearest town Delaware Water Gap, PA
Directions
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Mount Minsi & Lenape Lake via Appalachian Trail
3.8 mi · ▲ 1,113 ft · 1 hr 49 min
Elevation 402–1,459 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: 40.97860, -75.13855
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 7:29 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading W.
- 50 ftPass Lenape Lake.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Appalachian Trail, heading S.
- 1.7 miReach Mount Minsi, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.9 miTurn right, heading N.
- 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
87% dirt13% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:32 AMSunset 7:29 PM
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Lake Viewpoint & Lenape Lake via Lake Road 1.1 mi · ▲ 232 ft
- Lookout Rock & Lenape Lake Loop via Appalachian Trail 3.5 mi · ▲ 901 ft
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