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Trout Pond–Kettle Pond, 5 sights is a 5.9-mile out-and-back in McLean Game Refuge near The Gables, CT. The route passes Salmon Brook Park Beach, Salmon Brook Park Beach, Trout Pond and Kettle Pond. It is mostly level, with 168 ft of elevation gain. It scores 18/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi177 – 328 ft7.1 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 41.94716, -72.79734
Nearest town The Gables, CT

Directions

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Trout Pond–Kettle Pond, 5 sights

5.9 mi · ▲ 168 ft · 2 hr 3 min

Elevation 176–329 ft

Out & Back · McLean Game Refuge

Trailhead: 41.94716, -72.79734

Weather Aug 4: sunrise 5:48 AM · sunset 8:08 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading NW.
  2. 50 ftPass Salmon Brook Park Beach.
  3. 0.1 miTurn right, heading NW.
  4. 300 ftSharp left, heading NE.
  5. 0.1 miTurn left, heading NW.
  6. 350 ftBear left, heading NW.
  7. 0.1 miTurn left, heading SW.
  8. 250 ftTurn left, heading S.
  9. 250 ftBear left, heading SW.
  10. 450 ftBear right, heading S.
  11. 350 ftBear left, heading SE.
  12. 50 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  13. 50 ftPass Salmon Brook Park Beach.
  14. 250 ftBear right, heading E.
  15. 450 ftTurn left, heading SE.
  16. 0.1 miPass Trout Pond.
  17. 300 ftTurn right onto Chestnut Road, heading S.
  18. 0.3 miBear left onto Brook Road, heading W.
  19. 0.7 miBear right onto Valley Road, heading SW.
  20. 0.3 miPass Kettle Pond.
  21. 0.2 miTurn left, heading W.
  22. 0.1 miBear right, heading S.
  23. 0.3 miBear right, heading S.
  24. 300 ftReach Trout Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  25. 250 ftBear left, heading SE.
  26. 0.3 miBear left, heading W.
  27. 0.7 miBear left onto Brook Road, heading E.
  28. 0.7 miBear right onto Chestnut Road, heading NE.
  29. 0.3 miTurn left, heading NE.
  30. 0.2 miTurn right, heading N.
  31. 450 ftBear left, heading NE.
  32. 300 ftTurn right, heading NE.
  33. 50 ftBear right, heading NE.
  34. 350 ftBear left, heading SE.
  35. 500 ftBear right, heading SE.
  36. 250 ftTurn right, heading E.
  37. 300 ftTurn right, heading SE.
  38. 0.1 miBear right, heading NW.
  39. 350 ftTurn right, heading N.
  40. 0.1 miSharp right, heading W.
  41. 300 ftTurn left, heading NW.
  42. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail surface

4% grass1% gravel95% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 5:48 AMSunset 8:08 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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