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Poplar Run Road & Split Rail Hollow via MTB Trail is a 9.8-mile out-and-back in Blue Knob State Park near Frigid, PA. It climbs 2,001 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade. It scores 46/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi2,120 – 3,107 ft · steepest grade: 19%10.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 40.28806, -78.56485
Nearest town Frigid, PA

Directions

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Poplar Run Road & Split Rail Hollow via MTB Trail

9.8 mi · ▲ 2,001 ft · 4 hr 16 min

Elevation 2,119–3,107 ft

Out & Back · Blue Knob State Park

Trailhead: 40.28806, -78.56485

Weather Sep 6: sunrise 6:47 AM · sunset 7:40 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading SW.
  2. 350 ftTurn left onto Three Springs Trail, heading S.
  3. 0.3 miSharp left onto Connector Trail, heading NW.
  4. 0.1 miBear right onto MTB Trail, heading NE.
  5. 0.1 miBear left, heading E.
  6. 1 miSharp left, heading N.
  7. 0.2 miBear right, heading SW.
  8. 250 ftSharp right, heading S.
  9. 300 ftBear right, heading SW.
  10. 1.1 miBear left, heading NE.
  11. 0.3 miSharp right, heading NE.
  12. 0.6 miContinue straight onto Split Rail Hollow, heading S.
  13. 0.1 miBear right onto Poplar Run Road, heading E.
  14. 1 miReach Split Rail Hollow, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  15. 1 miBear left onto Split Rail Hollow, heading NW.
  16. 0.1 miContinue straight onto Dunnings Creek Way, heading NW.
  17. 0.6 miSharp left, heading SW.
  18. 0.3 miBear right, heading SW.
  19. 1.1 miBear left, heading W.
  20. 300 ftSharp left, heading SW.
  21. 250 ftBear left, heading SW.
  22. 0.2 miSharp right onto MTB Trail, heading E.
  23. 1 miBear left, heading SW.
  24. 0.1 miBear left onto Connector Trail, heading SW.
  25. 0.1 miSharp right onto Three Springs Trail, heading W.
  26. 0.3 miTurn right, heading SE.
  27. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

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Trail surface

23% dirt77% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:47 AMSunset 7:40 PM

Sunset

The best sunset spot on this hike is 0.1 mi in (~2 min). Leave by 7:18 PM for the 7:40 PM sunset. Back at your car by 7:58 PM — 9 min before dark.

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Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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