Back Road–Pick Your Poison, 3 sights
5 mi · ▲ 345 ft · 1 hr 50 min
Back Road–Pick Your Poison, 3 sights is a 5-mile out-and-back near South Pond, MA. It climbs 345 ft and is mostly dirt. It scores 1/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.
Elevation
Getting there
Directions
Back Road–Pick Your Poison, 3 sights
5 mi · ▲ 345 ft · 1 hr 50 min
Elevation 38–178 ft
Out & Back
Trailhead: 41.91268, -70.61934
Weather Aug 4: Overcast, high 84°F / low 62° · precip 0% · wind 6 mph · sunrise 5:40 AM · sunset 7:59 PM
- Start at the trailhead, heading S.
- 0.3 miTurn left, heading E.
- 0.5 miSharp right, heading NE.
- 450 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 500 ftTurn right, heading NE.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading NE.
- 350 ftBear right onto Pine Hills Powerlines, heading N.
- 0.2 miTurn left onto Back Road, heading NE.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Cathedral Road, heading N.
- 150 ftBear left onto Back Road, heading N.
- 300 ftBear right onto Pick Your Poison, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn right onto Back Road, heading NW.
- 0.6 miContinue straight onto State Road Fire Road, heading N.
- 0.4 miReach Back Road, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.4 miContinue straight onto Back Road, heading SW.
- 0.6 miTurn left, heading S.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Pick Your Poison, heading S.
- 50 ftBear left onto Back Road, heading S.
- 300 ftBear right onto Cathedral Road, heading S.
- 150 ftContinue straight onto Back Road, heading S.
- 0.2 miTurn right onto Pine Hills Powerlines, heading S.
- 0.2 miBear left, heading S.
- 350 ftTurn right, heading S.
- 50 ftTurn left, heading S.
- 500 ftTurn right, heading W.
- 450 ftSharp left, heading W.
- 0.5 miTurn right, heading SW.
- 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
Weather
Sunset
The best sunset spot on this hike is 2.4 mi in (~63 min). Leave by 6:36 PM for the 7:59 PM sunset. Back at your car by 9:18 PM, after dark — bring a headlamp.
Other ways to reach this destination
More from this trailhead
- Pine Hills Powerlines 2.2 mi · ▲ 150 ft
- Pine Hills Powerlines 2.2 mi · ▲ 172 ft
- Deadwood 2.7 mi · ▲ 135 ft
- Deadwood 2.9 mi · ▲ 171 ft
- Moto DH–Plimoth Backcountry Trail, 4 sights 3.8 mi · ▲ 454 ft
- Function Of Mind–Knobby, 4 sights 5.3 mi · ▲ 1,019 ft
Get outside more
A wild hike near South Pond, emailed to you once a week.
Hikes near South Pond, Massachusetts