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Mountain Tea State Forest

Waste Treatment Pond & Outpost Blue Trail via Pumpkin Ridge Road

9.2 mi · ▲ 934 ft · 3 hr 32 min

Waste Treatment Pond & Outpost Blue Trail via Pumpkin Ridge Road is a 9.2-mile out-and-back in Mountain Tea State Forest near Gatesville, IN. The route reaches Waste Treatment Pond at the turnaround, 4.6 miles in. It climbs 934 ft, with sections as steep as 32% grade. It scores 81/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.

Elevation

0 mi673 – 1,004 ft · steepest grade: 32%9.3 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 39.24447, -86.14360
Nearest town Gatesville, IN
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Waste Treatment Pond & Outpost Blue Trail via Pumpkin Ridge Road

9.2 mi · ▲ 934 ft · 3 hr 32 min

Elevation 674–1,004 ft

Out & Back · Mountain Tea State Forest

Trailhead: 39.24447, -86.14360

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 7:31 AM · sunset 7:47 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading E.
  2. 0.5 miBear left, heading SE.
  3. 1.5 miTurn right onto Pumpkin Ridge Road, heading W.
  4. 2.1 miTurn right onto Red Trail 5, heading SW.
  5. 0.6 miReach Waste Treatment Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  6. 0.6 miTurn left onto Pumpkin Ridge Road, heading NW.
  7. 2.1 miTurn left, heading NW.
  8. 1.5 miBear right, heading N.
  9. 0.4 miArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/waste-treatment-pond-outpost-blue-trail-out-back-15-km

Trail surface

10% dirt90% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 7:31 AMSunset 7:47 PM

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