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Overlook–Millbrook Ridge Trail, 3 sights is a 1-mile out-and-back in Mohonk Preserve near Lake Minnewaska, NY. The route reaches Overlook at the turnaround, 0.5 miles in. It climbs 485 ft, with sections as steep as 71% grade. It scores 1/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi925 – 1,184 ft · steepest grade: 71%1.2 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: West Trapps Parking Connector 41.73733, -74.19744
Nearest town Lake Minnewaska, NY

Directions

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Overlook–Millbrook Ridge Trail, 3 sights

1 mi · ▲ 485 ft · 35 min

Elevation 924–1,185 ft

Out & Back · Mohonk Preserve

Trailhead: West Trapps Parking Connector · 41.73733, -74.19744

Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:30 AM · sunset 7:22 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on West Trapps Parking Connector, heading NE.
  2. 0.1 miContinue straight onto Trapps Parking Access, heading SW.
  3. 50 ftTurn right, heading W.
  4. 50 ftTurn right onto Trapps Trail, heading W.
  5. 200 ftSharp left onto Millbrook Ridge Trail, heading W.
  6. 0.2 miSharp left, heading S.
  7. 50 ftContinue straight onto Near Trapps access trail, heading E.
  8. 0.1 miReach Overlook, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  9. 0.1 miSharp right onto Millbrook Ridge Trail, heading SW.
  10. 0.2 miSharp right onto Trapps Trail, heading N.
  11. 150 ftTurn left, heading N.
  12. 50 ftTurn left onto Trapps Parking Access, heading N.
  13. 50 ftContinue straight onto West Trapps Parking Connector, heading N.
  14. 0.1 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

34% gravel26% dirt1% paved39% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:30 AMSunset 7:22 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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