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Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Hikes at Coppermine Area NJ (AT spurs)
 
Kaiser (Road) Trail (blue blaze)
No bicycles or motor vehicles.
This old dirt roadway starts at a new head-in parking lot at milepost 6 on Old Mine Road, and climbs 2 miles and 1,000 ft. to join the Appalachian Trail about 1 mile north of Raccoon Ridge.
Kaiser Trail can be combined with Coppermine Trail by taking either of two blue-blazed connectors. From Coppermine Trail, a wood sign marks the lower (west) connector, about 1/4 mile from the trailhead and before crossing the footbridge.
 
Coppermine Trail (red blaze)
This trail begins across Old Mine Road from Coppermine parking area and climbs 1-8/10 miles and 700 ft. past old mines and along a stream across a footbridge in a hemlock ravine to reach the AT at Camp Rd. This trail can be hiked in a loop with the Kaiser Road Trail
 
a mountain outcrop shaped like a human profile looking to the right
Park Bulletin:
Hike the Gap/New Jersey/Tammany
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View of the sky through hemlock treetops  

Did You Know?
... that hemlock groves in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area are threatened by a non-native insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Hemlocks provide shade for spectacular rhodondenron, for trout streams, and for native wildflowers. As hemlocks weaken and die, they are cut down for your safety.
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Last Updated: July 02, 2009 at 11:59 EST