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New Gate Pond via Farmington Canal Heritage Trail is a 4.8-mile out-and-back near Granbrook Park, CT. The route reaches New Gate Pond at the turnaround, 2.4 miles in. It is mostly level, with 55 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 17/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi200 – 285 ft4.9 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Farmington Canal Heritage Trail 41.94096, -72.77464
Nearest town Granbrook Park, CT

Directions

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New Gate Pond via Farmington Canal Heritage Trail

4.8 mi · ▲ 55 ft · 1 hr 38 min

Elevation 201–284 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Farmington Canal Heritage Trail · 41.94096, -72.77464

Weather Aug 4: sunrise 5:48 AM · sunset 8:08 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, heading N.
  2. 0.9 miBear left, heading N.
  3. 0.8 miTurn right, heading E.
  4. 0.4 miTurn left, heading NE.
  5. 0.3 miReach New Gate Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  6. 0.3 miTurn right, heading S.
  7. 1.2 miBear left, heading SW.
  8. 0.8 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

71% paved16% dirt13% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 5:48 AMSunset 8:08 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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