YMCA Camp Sloper

Sloper's Pond & Alligator Pond

4 mi · ▲ 538 ft · 1 hr 36 min

Sloper's Pond & Alligator Pond is a 4-mile out-and-back in YMCA Camp Sloper near Pratts Corner, CT. The route passes Sloper's Pond and Alligator Pond. It climbs 538 ft, with sections as steep as 40% grade. It scores 30/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi197 – 509 ft · steepest grade: 40%4.7 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 41.58035, -72.81990
Nearest town Pratts Corner, CT

Directions

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Sloper's Pond & Alligator Pond

4 mi · ▲ 538 ft · 1 hr 36 min

Elevation 196–510 ft

Out & Back · YMCA Camp Sloper

Trailhead: 41.58035, -72.81990

Weather Aug 4: sunrise 5:49 AM · sunset 8:07 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading W.
  2. 0.4 miBear right, heading N.
  3. 0.5 miSharp left, heading NE.
  4. 0.4 miTurn right, heading SW.
  5. 50 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  6. 0.2 miTurn left, heading W.
  7. 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  8. 450 ftSharp right, heading W.
  9. 100 ftPass Sloper's Pond.
  10. 450 ftPass Alligator Pond.
  11. 50 ftTurn left, heading NE.
  12. 0.1 miBear right, heading NW.
  13. 0.1 miBear left, heading W.
  14. 150 ftSharp left, heading W.
  15. 50 ftTurn right, heading W.
  16. 50 ftReach Sloper's Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  17. 50 ftTurn left, heading W.
  18. 100 ftSharp right, heading W.
  19. 150 ftBear right, heading W.
  20. 0.1 miBear left, heading NE.
  21. 0.1 miTurn right, heading SW.
  22. 0.1 miSharp left, heading SE.
  23. 450 ftTurn left, heading SW.
  24. 50 ftTurn right, heading SW.
  25. 0.2 miTurn right, heading SE.
  26. 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  27. 0.4 miSharp right, heading SE.
  28. 0.5 miBear left, heading E.
  29. 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

21% gravel79% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 5:49 AMSunset 8:07 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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