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Backpacker Magazine – January/February 2010
Readers' Choice Northeast Hikes: Burroughs Range Loop, Catskill Mountain Preserve, NY
Scramble to the Catskills' highest peaks.
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Ricketts Glen State Park, PA | Panther Gorge and Mt. Marcy, Adirondack Park, NY | Bernard Mountain, Acadia National Park, ME | Vermont's Green Mountains Foliage | Maine's 100-Mile Wilderness | Burroughs Range Loop, Catskill Mountain Preserve, NY |
Get a sample of every Catskills highlight on the 9.8-mile Burroughs Range Trail. “It has multiple sweeping viewpoints, challenging terrain, and the chance to summit three high peaks,” says Debbie Melita. “This trail has it all.” You’ll gain 2,000 feet in the first four miles as you rise through pine-scented groves to a craggy ridge that leads to a trio of peaks: Wittenberg (3,790 feet), Cornell (3,870 feet), and Slide (the range’s highest at 4,190 feet). Scramble a series of wide ledges (some with ladder rungs bolted into the rock face) to Slide’s summit, then link the Burroughs Range and Phoenicia-East Trails (an old fire road) for a 16-mile loop.
PLAN IT
Driving From Phoenicia, take Bridge St. to High St.; turn left. In one mile, go straight on Woodland Valley Rd.; park in five miles at the trailhead ($6).
Map and Guide AMC’s Catskill Mountain Guide ($24, outdoors.org, includes maps)
Contact (845) 256-3013, dec.ny.gov
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READERS COMMENTS
...If you're driving from Rt 28, you can make a right onto bridge st (at the big Phoenicia signpost) and then a left onto High Street. But you can also just stay on Rt 28 and make a left at the old Woodland Valley Inn onto Woodland Valley Road and then make a right after the bridge over the Esopus...
jay
Posted: Mar 04, 2010 Jay H
'Driving From Phoenicia, take Bridge St. to High St.; turn left. In one mile, go straight on Woodland Valley Rd.; park in five miles at the trailhead ($6). "
Ummm, if you're driving from downtown Phoenicia, you would take Bridge St across the Esopus River but then you'd make a RIGHT onto high street which becomes Woodland Valley Road at some point which leads you to the eastern terminus of the trail over the Burrough's Range at the Woodland Valley Campground. This is best done as a car spot (at the Slide Mtn trailhead on CR47) or a very long dayhike as a loop or a relaxed 1 night backpack.
Also, recommend the NYNJTC mapset of the Catskills or the Venture Out mapset.
Jay
Posted: Mar 04, 2010 Jay H
Awesome hike. Did it a few summers ago. Great views of the Ashokan and a challenging hike through some tough sections. Overall a great day trip
Posted: Feb 24, 2010 Mike
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