Blair Creek Preserve
Sand Pond–Copperhead Spring Pond, 5 sights
5.4 mi · ▲ 436 ft · 2 hr 1 min
Sand Pond–Copperhead Spring Pond, 5 sights is a 5.4-mile out-and-back in Blair Creek Preserve near Millbrook, NJ. The route passes Copperhead Spring Pond, Sand Pond and Sand Pond. It climbs 436 ft, with sections as steep as 21% grade. It scores 84/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
Elevation
0 mi978 – 1,296 ft · steepest grade: 21%5.6 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Appalachian Trail 41.05942, -74.96371
Nearest town Millbrook, NJ
Directions
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Sand Pond–Copperhead Spring Pond, 5 sights
5.4 mi · ▲ 436 ft · 2 hr 1 min
Elevation 977–1,297 ft
Out & Back · Blair Creek Preserve
Trailhead: Appalachian Trail · 41.05942, -74.96371
Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:33 AM · sunset 7:25 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Appalachian Trail, heading E.
- 0.3 miPass Copperhead Spring Pond.
- 50 ftBear right onto Blue White Trail, heading E.
- 0.4 miPass Sand Pond.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Blue Trail, heading E.
- 0.3 miPass Sand Pond.
- 300 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Orange Trail, heading E.
- 1.5 miReach Sand Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 1.5 miTurn right, heading W.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 250 ftTurn right onto Sand Pond Loop Trail, heading NW.
- 0.4 miTurn left onto Blue White Trail, heading NW.
- 0.4 miBear left onto Appalachian Trail, heading W.
- 0.3 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
33% gravel12% dirt55% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:33 AMSunset 7:25 PM
Good to know
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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