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Old Blue via Appalachian Trail is a 4.5-mile out-and-back in Wawayanda State Park near DeKays, NJ. It climbs 1,128 ft, with sections as steep as 28% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 23/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi440 – 1,417 ft · steepest grade: 28%4.6 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Appalachian Trail 41.21934, -74.45526
Nearest town DeKays, NJ

Directions

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Old Blue via Appalachian Trail

4.5 mi · ▲ 1,128 ft · 2 hr 4 min

Elevation 439–1,419 ft

Out & Back · Wawayanda State Park

Trailhead: Appalachian Trail · 41.21934, -74.45526

Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:31 AM · sunset 7:23 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Appalachian Trail, heading SE.
  2. 1.3 miTurn right onto Old Blue, heading SW.
  3. 1 miReach Old Blue, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  4. 1 miTurn left onto Appalachian Trail, heading W.
  5. 1.2 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

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:31 AMSunset 7:23 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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