Miles: 6.4
Time: 3 hours 52 minutes
Parking: Route 7, just north of intersection with Route 4, Litchfield, CT
GPS: N 41 degrees 49.290', W 073 degrees 22.560'
Rest rooms: None
Hike directions:
Start at kiosk in parking area.
Follow blue blazed Mohawk trail.
Ascend Bread Loaf Mountain
Turn left (southbound) at intersection with AT.
Follow white blazed AT.
Detour: Turn left onto Old Sharon Road (dirt road) - walk .25 miles
Turn right onto Route 4 (busy road) - walk .25 miles
Turn left onto AT.
Ascend Silver Hill
Descend and arrive at Housatonic River.
Turn around.
Ascend Silver Hill.
Turn right onto Route 4 (busy road) - walk .30 miles
Turn left onto Route 7
Arrive at parking area on left.
Map: Appalachian Trail Guide to Massachusetts Connecticut
This map shows the beginning of the hike including the detour: Housatonic Meadows Trail Map
Hike description: This is an out and mostly back hike. The parking lot isn't next to the AT. There is no parking where the AT crosses Route 7.
We had two choices - hike the Mohawk trail and turn left when it intersects the AT, or do a road walk on a road with fast moving cars, to the AT. We opted for hiking along the Mohawk trail. We reached the AT, but after a short while on it, there was a detour off the AT back to the road we were originally trying to avoid. There is a fast moving wide brook which has to be forded in order to cross. It was too dangerous to cross. There was a sign recommending a detour. I would try to avoid the road walk.
Post-hike dinner: Chipotle, Danbury, CT
Year to date miles: 12.7
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| Sign at the parking area. Looking towards intersection of Route 4 and Route 7 |
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| Kiosk at the Mowhawk trail's trailhead |
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| View from Bread Loaf Mountain |
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| Intersection of Mohawk Trail and Appalachian Trail |
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| Intersection of Mohawk Trail and Appalachian Trail. Turn Left on Appalachian Trail (southbound). |
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| At an intersection with a gravel road, this sign recommends a detour. Guinea Brook was raging. We took the left onto this gravel road, and then right onto Route 4. |
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| View down to the brook - which looked more like a river. |
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| Detour along Old Sharon Road. The detour has blue blazes. |
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| Turning right onto Route 4. |
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| Walking along Route 4, just before we reach the AT, where we take a left to continue southbound. |
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| View of Silver Hill. |
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| View near the summit of Silver Hill. |
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| Short side trail to camping off of the AT. |
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| Road crossing right before the Housatonic. |
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| Housatonic River - the AT splits off what I assume is River Road on the right. |
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| Another sign about the detour on the return trip. |
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