Mount Beacon loop
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 7.08 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,493 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 2,369 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,691 ft
- TrailRank
- 50
- Min elevation
- 206 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 2 hours 46 minutes
- Time
- 4 hours 4 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1916
- Uploaded
- December 21, 2021
- Recorded
- December 2021
near Beacon, New York (United States)
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Itinerary description
Mount Beacon trailhead to the ruins to the firetower and around. First two miles are the steepest ascent, the ~half mile coming down from the firetower is steep as well but otherwise we’ll marked and very doable trail. Trail markers: red to white to yellow to blue to white to yellow to red (yellow joins red just above the stairs for the same descent). I got a little confused at the yellow/blue juncture but made it :)
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1,253 ft
Blue x Yellow intersection
I thought about continuing on yellow (right) but appeared to be going farther from where I wanted to go (beacon) and decided to follow blue
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1,066 ft
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So I ended up off trail in what looked like a dry creek bed but met w white trail as expected
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1,047 ft
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Short bit of road before re entering white trail on the right
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860 ft
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837 ft
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669 ft
White x yellow
Following yellow to the left
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522 ft
Yellow x red
Back to red trail as we started on. Go to right to descend (left will take you back up and around!)
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387 ft
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