Mount Minsi–Vista, 6 sights is a 9.3-mile out-and-back near Foxtown Hill, PA. The route passes Totts Gap, Totts Gap Mine, Vista and Mount Minsi before reaching Lenape Lake at the turnaround, 4.6 miles in. It climbs 1,723 ft, with sections as steep as 29% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 37/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
Elevation
0 mi400 – 1,460 ft · steepest grade: 29%9.5 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Totts Gap Hill Road 40.93994, -75.16737
Nearest town Foxtown Hill, PA
Directions
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Mount Minsi–Vista, 6 sights
9.3 mi · ▲ 1,723 ft · 3 hr 58 min
Elevation 402–1,459 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: Totts Gap Hill Road · 40.93994, -75.16737
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 7:29 PM
- Start on Totts Gap Hill Road, heading NE.
- 0.8 miSharp right onto Appalachian Trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftPass Totts Gap.
- 50 ftPass Totts Gap Mine.
- 1.9 miPass Vista.
- 50 ftPass Mount Minsi.
- 1.9 miPass Lenape Lake.
- 150 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 150 ftReach Mount Minsi, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 150 ftTurn left, heading N.
- 3.9 miSharp left onto Totts Gap Hill Road, heading SW.
- 0.7 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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Trail surface
78% dirt22% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:32 AMSunset 7:29 PM
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