Scenic View - Tidal Creeks–Hooks Creek Lake, 4 lakes
2.9 mi · ▲ 28 ft · 59 min
Scenic View - Tidal Creeks–Hooks Creek Lake, 4 lakes is a 2.9-mile out-and-back in Cheesequake State Park near Cheesequake, NJ. The route passes Scenic View - Tidal Creeks, Hooks Creek Lake Beach and Perrine Pond before reaching Hooks Creek Lake at the turnaround, 1.4 miles in. It is mostly level, with 28 ft of elevation gain, and mostly dirt. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Scenic View - Tidal Creeks–Hooks Creek Lake, 4 lakes
2.9 mi · ▲ 28 ft · 59 min
Elevation -3–57 ft
Out & Back · Cheesequake State Park
Trailhead: 40.43971, -74.27238
Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:29 AM · sunset 7:25 PM
Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start on Perrine Road, heading SW.
- 50 ftPass Scenic View - Tidal Creeks.
- 50 ftPass Hooks Creek Lake Beach.
- 0.4 miPass Perrine Pond.
- 0.3 miTurn left onto Green / Red Trail, heading NE.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Blue / Green / Red Trail, heading N.
- 0.2 miSharp right onto Blue / Green / Red / Yellow Trail, heading NW.
- 250 ftTurn left, heading E.
- 0.2 miReach Scenic View - Tidal Creeks, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 50 ftPass Hooks Creek Lake.
- 0.3 miSharp left onto Blue / Green / Red Trail, heading E.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Green / Red Trail, heading W.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Perrine Road, heading W.
- 0.7 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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- Toilets at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
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