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Phillips Lake & Cardinal Green Way via Cardinal Greenway

5 mi · ▲ 0 ft · 1 hr 40 min

Phillips Lake & Cardinal Green Way via Cardinal Greenway is a 5-mile out-and-back near Muncie, IN. The route reaches Phillips Lake. It is mostly level, with 0 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi942 – 965 ft5.1 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Cardinal Greenway 40.19715, -85.37781
Nearest town Muncie, IN
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Phillips Lake & Cardinal Green Way via Cardinal Greenway

5 mi · ▲ 0 ft · 1 hr 40 min

Elevation 941–966 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: Cardinal Greenway · 40.19715, -85.37781

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 7:29 AM · sunset 7:42 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Cardinal Greenway, heading E.
  2. 0.6 miPass Phillips Lake.
  3. 1.5 miSharp right onto Cardinal Green Way, heading NW.
  4. 0.5 miReach Phillips Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.5 miSharp left onto Cardinal Greenway, heading NW.
  6. 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 map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/phillips-lake-phillips-lake-out-back-3-lakes-8-km

Trail surface

99% paved1% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:29 AMSunset 7:42 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is 2.0 mi in (~49 min). Leave by 6:33 PM for the 7:42 PM sunset. Back at your car by 8:46 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.

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Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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