Musconetcong Gorge Preserve
Red Trail & Turquoise Blazes
5 mi · ▲ 465 ft · 1 hr 54 min
Red Trail & Turquoise Blazes is a 5-mile out-and-back in Musconetcong Gorge Preserve near Hughesville, NJ. It climbs 465 ft, with sections as steep as 16% grade, and is mostly dirt. It scores 3/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi236 – 410 ft · steepest grade: 16%5.1 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Turquoise Blazes 40.61407, -75.15024
Nearest town Hughesville, NJ
Directions
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Red Trail & Turquoise Blazes
5 mi · ▲ 465 ft · 1 hr 54 min
Elevation 237–409 ft
Out & Back · Musconetcong Gorge Preserve
Trailhead: Turquoise Blazes · 40.61407, -75.15024
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:32 AM · sunset 7:28 PM
- Start on Turquoise Blazes, heading N.
- 1.5 miBear left onto Blue Trail, heading NE.
- 0.5 miBear right onto Red Trail, heading NE.
- 0.5 miReach Turquoise Blazes, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.5 miBear left onto Blue Trail, heading SW.
- 0.5 miBear right onto Turquoise Blazes, heading SE.
- 1.4 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 6:32 AMSunset 7:28 PM
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- Highlands Trail / Yellow Trail & Turquoise Blazes 4 mi · ▲ 500 ft
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