2024-10-23 12 58 28 Autumn view east along the Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail at its junction with the Ridge Trail within the Sourland Mountain Preserve in Hillsborough Township, Somerset County, New Jersey.jpg
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Ridge Connector via Ridge Trail is a 3.4-mile out-and-back in Sourland Mountain Preserve near Zion, NJ. It is mostly level, with 111 ft of elevation gain, and mostly dirt. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi476 – 522 ft3.5 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail 40.46234, -74.72831
Nearest town Zion, NJ

Directions

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Ridge Connector via Ridge Trail

3.4 mi · ▲ 111 ft · 1 hr 11 min

Elevation 476–523 ft

Out & Back · Sourland Mountain Preserve

Trailhead: Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail · 40.46234, -74.72831

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:31 AM · sunset 7:26 PM

Bikes allowed on the whole route

  1. Start on Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading E.
  2. 0.9 miSharp right onto Ridge Trail, heading S.
  3. 0.3 miTurn left onto Ridge Connector, heading S.
  4. 0.5 miReach Ridge Connector, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.5 miTurn right onto Ridge Trail, heading NE.
  6. 0.3 miSharp left onto Texas Eastern Pipeline Trail, heading N.
  7. 0.9 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 6:31 AMSunset 7:26 PM

Good to know

  • Bikes allowed on the whole route

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