South Mountain Preserve - Wildlands Conservancy
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 40.55518, -75.47686
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| Roadside parking on Ithica Street at the playground. |
TRAIL MAP:
South Mountain Preserve Map - Wildlands Conservancy
HIKE DISTANCE: 10 miles
THE HIKE:
This hike is a counterclockwise perimeter loop.
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| The green Wilderness Trail starts at the kiosk on the far side of the playground. |
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| Right on the orange Alpine Street Trail to start the loop. |
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| At the Alpine Street access, left towards the kiosk... |
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| ... then right just after the kiosk. |
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| Crossing a street ... |
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| ... to the Robert Rodale South Mountain Greenway Trail. This will be an out and back with a loop at the far end. |
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| Klines Lane Parking |
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| Turning back to loop around the other side and retrace. |
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| Back across the road ... |
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| ... towards the Alpine Street access where we turned right ... |
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| ... to continue on the orange Alpine Street Trail. |
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| Brodie obviously cannot read. |
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| The trail ascends South Mountain and becomes rockier. |
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| At the map ... |
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| ... right on the blue Uplands Trail. |
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| Keeping right when the Uplands Trail forks. |
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| Right on the yellow Mountain Top Trail. |
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| Crossing a power cut ... |
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| ... with a view. |
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| Right on the Log Trail. |
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| Right on the Double R Trail. |
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| Right on the Log Trail. |
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| After crossing back over the power cut ... |
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| ... right on the Uplands Trail. |
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| Right on red Trout Run Trail. |
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| We packed out balloon #1 of the year. |
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| The Trout Run Trail will turn left heading towards the power cut. We'd meet back up with it later on coming up the power cut. For now ... |
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| ... straight on a purple trail that is not on the map. |
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| At it's end, the purple trail turns left to the power cut ... |
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| ... where we turned left then right at the fork. |
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| Unfortunately this part of the power cut had that loose chunky rock gravel that was incredibly hard to walk on. |
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| The red Trout Run Trail comes in to the left and joins the power cut. Just up ahead at the top of the rise ... |
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| ... the icky gravel power cut turns to the right and the Trout Run Trail continues as a footpath straight ahead. |
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| Right on the Alpine Street Trail towards the boulder outcropping. |
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| Boulder Outcropping |
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| Right on the green Wilderness Trail ... |
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| ... to retrace back to where we parked. |
