ABOUT THE PARK:
Sterling Forest State Park, NY - New York State Parks
Sterling Forest State Park, NY - New York State Parks
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 41.22972, -74.18443
GPS Coordinates 41.22972, -74.18443
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| Tuxedo Park and Ride Lot |
THE HIKE:
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| The white-blazed Wildcat Mountain Trail starts at the far end of the park and ride lot as a woods road. |
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| After a short distance the trail leaves the woods road to the left as a footpath. |
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| After a stretch of level trail, the trail ascends. |
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| Views of Harriman State Park and the New York State Thruway below. |
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| After descending with a pond straight ahead, I wanted to turn left on orange but the blazes were confusing. |
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| I headed straight to the pond then when I turned around ... |
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| ... I saw the orange blazes now on my right that would take me around clockwise. |
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| Balloon #5 of the year. |
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| The trail comes out on a gravel road that it will follow downhill all the way to it's end. |
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| At the end of orange, a few steps ahead ... |
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| ... right on green. |
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| This is a more pleasant grassy woods road. |
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| Coming out at Orange Turnpike ... |
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| ... the green trail ends and keeping right after the gate ... |
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| ... to a short walk down a residential street to the bend ... |
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| ... leads to a small gravel parking lot and the orange/white trail. |
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| Arriving at the pond with the confusing blazes from earlier, the blazes make more sense coming from this direction. We turned left to retrace on white. |
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| We only encountered two men heading up a mile from the parking lot but saw nobody else the entire hike. |
