Swimming Hole–Split Rock, 5 sights is a 5.2-mile out-and-back in Mohonk Preserve near Lake Minnewaska, NY. The route passes Split Rock before reaching Swimming Hole at the turnaround, 2.6 miles in. It climbs 399 ft, with sections as steep as 18% grade. It scores 7/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
0 mi692 – 1,106 ft · steepest grade: 18%5.4 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 41.72236, -74.22182
Nearest town Lake Minnewaska, NY
Directions
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Swimming Hole–Split Rock, 5 sights
5.2 mi · ▲ 399 ft · 1 hr 56 min
Elevation 694–1,105 ft
Out & Back · Mohonk Preserve
Trailhead: 41.72236, -74.22182
Weather Sep 7: sunrise 6:30 AM · sunset 7:22 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Coxing Trail, heading NE.
- 0.8 miBear right onto Trapps Trail, heading E.
- 1 miTurn left, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Trapps Parking Access, heading NE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto West Trapps Parking Connector, heading E.
- 350 ftBear right onto Shongum Path, heading NW.
- 0.6 miSharp left onto Old Minnewaska Trail, heading N.
- 50 ftPass Split Rock.
- 50 ftReach Swimming Hole, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 100 ftSharp right onto Shongum Path, heading NW.
- 0.6 miBear left onto West Trapps Parking Connector, heading S.
- 300 ftContinue straight onto Trapps Parking Access, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right, heading SE.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Trapps Trail, heading SE.
- 1 miBear left onto Coxing Trail, heading SW.
- 0.8 miTurn right, heading W.
- 0.1 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
40% gravel23% dirt37% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 6:30 AMSunset 7:22 PM
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