Pinchot State Forest
Old Back Road & Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Trail
5.3 mi · ▲ 655 ft · 2 hr 6 min
Old Back Road & Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Trail is a 5.3-mile out-and-back in Pinchot State Forest near Warrior Run, PA. It climbs 655 ft, with sections as steep as 17% grade. It scores 10/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Old Back Road & Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Trail
5.3 mi · ▲ 655 ft · 2 hr 6 min
Elevation 615–969 ft
Out & Back · Pinchot State Forest
Trailhead: Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Trail · 41.19329, -75.94486
Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:37 AM · sunset 7:29 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Trail, heading SE.
- 0.8 miBear right, heading SW.
- 0.6 miBear left, heading NW.
- 0.4 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 0.3 miBear right, heading W.
- 400 ftBear right onto Old Back Road, heading NW.
- 0.5 miReach Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.5 miBear left, heading SE.
- 450 ftBear left, heading SE.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading E.
- 0.4 miBear right, heading E.
- 0.6 miBear left, heading NE.
- 150 ftContinue straight onto Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Trail, heading NE.
- 0.7 miArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
Weather
Sunset
The best sunset spot on this hike is 0.7 mi in (~26 min). Leave by 6:43 PM for the 7:29 PM sunset. Back at your car by 8:02 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp. Car visible from the viewpoint
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Trail Trailhead
- Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Viewpoint–Sugar Notch Trail Spur, 3 sights 4.2 mi · ▲ 619 ft
- Jacqueline Munro Trail–Sugar Notch Trail Spur, 3 sights 4.8 mi · ▲ 730 ft
- Hanover Reservoir & Sugar Notch Trails: Ridgetop Trail 9.6 mi · ▲ 873 ft
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