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Middle Beech MBT is a 5.5-mile out-and-back in Mansfield Hollow Lake Recreation Area near Spring Hill, CT. It climbs 500 ft, with sections as steep as 18% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 19/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi220 – 646 ft · steepest grade: 18%5.9 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 41.78830, -72.22381
Nearest town Spring Hill, CT

Directions

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Middle Beech MBT

5.5 mi · ▲ 500 ft · 2 hr 5 min

Elevation 219–645 ft

Out & Back · Mansfield Hollow Lake Recreation Area

Trailhead: 41.78830, -72.22381

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:36 AM · sunset 6:50 PM

Transit-accessible: Spring Hill stop 85 m from the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading N.
  2. 0.6 miTurn right, heading SE.
  3. 0.1 miTurn right, heading SW.
  4. 0.3 miTurn right, heading S.
  5. 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
  6. 200 ftBear right onto Middle Beech MBT, heading E.
  7. 50 ftTurn left, heading E.
  8. 1.4 miBear left, heading E.
  9. 50 ftBear right, heading E.
  10. 50 ftTurn right, heading E.
  11. 0.1 miBear right, heading S.
  12. 100 ftTurn left, heading S.
  13. 450 ftTurn right onto Old Route 89, heading S.
  14. 0.1 miReach the turnaround, then head back the way you came.
  15. 0.1 miTurn left, heading S.
  16. 450 ftTurn right, heading NE.
  17. 150 ftBear left, heading NE.
  18. 0.1 miTurn left, heading N.
  19. 50 ftBear left, heading N.
  20. 50 ftBear right, heading N.
  21. 1.4 miTurn right onto Middle Beech MBT, heading NW.
  22. 50 ftBear left, heading NW.
  23. 150 ftTurn right, heading NW.
  24. 50 ftTurn left, heading W.
  25. 0.3 miTurn left, heading NW.
  26. 500 ftTurn left, heading NW.
  27. 0.5 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

72% dirt7% paved21% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:36 AMSunset 6:50 PM

Good to know

  • Transit-accessible: Spring Hill stop 85 m from the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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