Waste Treatment Pond & Outpost Blue Trail via Pumpkin Ridge Road
8 mi · ▲ 638 ft · 2 hr 59 min
Waste Treatment Pond & Outpost Blue Trail via Pumpkin Ridge Road is an 8-mile out-and-back in Mountain Tea State Forest near Taggart, IN. The route reaches Waste Treatment Pond at the turnaround, 4 miles in. It climbs 638 ft, with sections as steep as 18% grade. It scores 78/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: genuinely wild.
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Waste Treatment Pond & Outpost Blue Trail via Pumpkin Ridge Road
8 mi · ▲ 638 ft · 2 hr 59 min
Elevation 702–1,004 ft
Out & Back · Mountain Tea State Forest
Trailhead: 39.25147, -86.11380
Weather Sep 20: Light drizzle, high 87°F / low 71° · precip 18% · wind 9 mph · sunrise 7:31 AM · sunset 7:47 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading S.
- 1 miSharp left, heading SE.
- 0.3 miTurn right onto Pumpkin Ridge Road, heading W.
- 2.1 miTurn right onto Red Trail 5, heading SW.
- 0.6 miReach Waste Treatment Pond, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.6 miTurn left onto Pumpkin Ridge Road, heading NW.
- 2.1 miTurn left, heading N.
- 0.3 miSharp right, heading NE.
- 1 miArrive back at the trailhead.
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- Pumpkin Ridge Road 7.1 mi · ▲ 447 ft
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