Silver Lake–Crooked Brook Pond, 3 lakes
6.7 mi · ▲ 670 ft · 2 hr 34 min
Silver Lake–Crooked Brook Pond, 3 lakes is a 6.7-mile out-and-back in Blue Hills Conservation Area near Meriden, CT. The route passes Silver Lake and Crooked Brook Pond. It climbs 670 ft, with sections as steep as 19% grade. It scores 23/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
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Silver Lake–Crooked Brook Pond, 3 lakes
6.7 mi · ▲ 670 ft · 2 hr 34 min
Elevation 151–466 ft
Out & Back · Blue Hills Conservation Area
Trailhead: 41.56274, -72.80966
Weather Sep 20: Light rain, high 63°F / low 57° · precip 74% · wind 3 mph · sunrise 6:37 AM · sunset 6:54 PM
Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading E.
- 0.3 miTurn right, heading E.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading N.
- 0.1 miTurn right, heading NE.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 0.8 miBear right, heading NE.
- 0.2 miBear right, heading NE.
- 100 ftTurn right, heading N.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto vague trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading E.
- 0.7 miPass Silver Lake.
- 50 ftBear left, heading NE.
- 50 ftBear right, heading NE.
- 0.2 miReach Silver Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.2 miSharp right, heading W.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.3 miBear right, heading NW.
- 50 ftBear left, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading NW.
- 0.6 miTurn left, heading N.
- 450 ftPass Crooked Brook Pond.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading N.
- 0.1 miBear left, heading W.
- 0.7 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 0.2 miTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.2 miTurn right, heading W.
- 0.2 miBear left, heading S.
- 100 ftBear left, heading S.
- 0.4 miTurn left, heading S.
- 100 ftTurn right, heading S.
- 0.1 miBear right, heading S.
- 350 ftTurn left, heading SW.
- 0.2 miArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
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- Parking lot at the trailhead
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- Beaver Pond & vague trail 4.9 mi · ▲ 437 ft
- Beaver Pond–Crooked Brook Pond, 3 lakes 6.3 mi · ▲ 712 ft
- Crooked Brook Pond via Old Metacomet 4.4 mi · ▲ 369 ft
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