Mount Toby–Cranberry Pond, 9 sights
11 mi · ▲ 2,789 ft · 5 hr 4 min
Mount Toby–Cranberry Pond, 9 sights is an 11-mile out-and-back in Mount Toby State Forest near North Sunderland, MA. The route passes Cranberry Pond, Cranberry Pond and Mount Toby. It climbs 2,789 ft, with sections as steep as 25% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 38/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
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Mount Toby–Cranberry Pond, 9 sights
11 mi · ▲ 2,789 ft · 5 hr 4 min
Elevation 317–1,270 ft
Out & Back · Mount Toby State Forest
Trailhead: Crannberry Pond Trail · 42.50340, -72.52515
Weather Sep 20: Heavy drizzle, high 57°F / low 50° · precip 74% · wind 5 mph · sunrise 6:36 AM · sunset 6:53 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Crannberry Pond Trail, heading SW.
- 50 ftPass Cranberry Pond.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading W.
- 50 ftPass Cranberry Pond.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto White Pine Trail, heading W.
- 200 ftBear left onto Tower Road, heading S.
- 200 ftContinue straight onto Hemlock Trail, heading SW.
- 0.4 miBear left onto Robert Frost Trail (Orange), heading SW.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Blue Trail/Robert Frost Trail, heading S.
- 0.4 miPass Mount Toby.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Summit Trail, heading S.
- 0.8 miTurn left onto Link Trail, heading W.
- 0.6 miTurn left onto Middle Mountain Road, heading S.
- 2 miTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Robert Frost Trail (Orange), heading S.
- 0.1 miReach Mount Toby, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading NW.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Reservoir Road, heading W.
- 1.9 miContinue straight onto Middle Mountain Road, heading NE.
- 150 ftTurn right onto Link Trail, heading NE.
- 0.6 miTurn right onto North Mountain Road, heading NE.
- 0.8 miTurn left onto Blue Trail/Robert Frost Trail, heading NW.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading E.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Robert Frost Trail (Orange), heading SE.
- 0.2 miBear right onto Hemlock Trail, heading NW.
- 0.4 miContinue straight onto Tower Road, heading NE.
- 200 ftBear right onto White Pine Trail, heading NE.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Crannberry Pond Trail, heading N.
- 0.1 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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