South Point Mountain

South Point Mountain Reservation (9/6/2010)

We hiked Point Mountain starting from the northern end (Penwell Road) almost exactly four years ago. Today we did a lollipop hike beginning from the parking area on Mountain Top Road. Using this map, we took the White trail all the way north to the Ridge trail, making a left here. We climbed the ridge of Point Mountain, taking in the awesome views along the way. Our plan was to return via the Overlook trail but we overshot it and ended up going about a half mile down the steep decline of the Ridge trail before realizing our error. So we had to turn around and climb back up the very steep trail before arriving at the Overlook trail (which is right behind the best vista). We took this back to the White trail (the lollipop stick) and then back to the car. It's a spendid hike with open fields, dense forest, ruins, magnificent views and some narrow overgrown trails. And the weather was perfect, as it was all three days on this wonderful Labor Day weekend.

Total distance hiked today was 5.4 miles in approximately 3.5 hours.

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