ABOUT THE PARK:
There is no information other than AllTrails stating 1 mile of trails. There is much more than that. Using Dan and Laura Balogh's notes along with various tracks I pieced together in the Gaia app I set out to hike as many of the blazed trails as possible.
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 41.039400, -74.618701
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| There is a parking lot on the left just before a gate. If the gate is closed park there and walk in. If the gate is open continue on to the second parking lot on the right which is the one pictured above. |
TRAIL MAP:
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| The map in the kiosk does not show all of the trails. |
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| Using my track I colored in the trails. There is one other that connects the overlook to the orange trail and it is blazed with large green paint circles with a yellow circle in the middle. Gray is the park road which becomes gravel and follows Sparta Glen Brook. |
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HIKE DISTANCE: 3.7 miles
THE HIKE:
I needed to stop in at the Kittatinny Valley State Park office for some information on a new trail I wanted to hike but since I hike at the crack of dawn and they don't open until 9:00 AM I had a couple of hours to kill so I hiked these trails about 15 minutes away.
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| From the second parking lot backtrack just a few steps on the park road to the blue trail. |
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| Passing orange which we would take from this point later. |
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| Blue turns right with green; we turned left on green. |
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| When green turns right, we turned left on yellow. |
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| Yellow descends a bit then ascends and loop around the top of Sparta Mountain. |
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| At the end of yellow, left on green ... |
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| ... to a huge flat boulder ... |
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| ... at the overlook of Lake Mohawk. |
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| Leaving the overlook we turned left on green then left on ... |
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| ... sort of a yellowish/green? blazed trail. |
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| Some benches along this trail. |
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| This trail descends steeply at times. |
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| Left on blue where we retraced what we hiked earlier for just a short distance to ... |
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| ... left on orange. |
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| Orange descends to a picnic pavilion at the park road. We turned left on the park road where it changes from paved to gravel. |
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| The gravel road follows along Sparta Glen Brook. |
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| A picnic table at the end of the gravel road. |
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| Heading back. |
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| The road becomes paved at the pavilion. |
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| Coming back up on the parking lot. |
