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To the west of Harriman, lie the 20 thousand acres of Sterling Forest State Park. Located between the Appalachian Trail corridor on the North and New Jerseys Wanaque, Passaic and Ringwood park lands to the South and Greenwood Lake to the West, this newest addition to the regions publicly-owned lands offers the hiker over forty miles of blazed trail and numerous, marked woods roads. The parks Visitors Information Center is located on Route 17, 3 miles north of Tuxedo, NY.

• Link to old map  from the New York Walk Book (Third Edition 1951)
• Link to locator map of the Sterling Forest Trails map 
• Link to ordering information for the Sterling Forest Trails map
• Link to NYS Park information
• Southfield Furnace
• Mombasha Creek Bridge

Links

• Sterling Forest Partnership
• Sterling Forest Fire Tower, NY
• Landscape Ecology Study of Sterling Forest

Books about Sterling Forest

• New York Walk Book
• New Jersey Walk Book
• Iron Mine Trails

Hiking Trails in the region

Use the Sterling Forest Map. However, some of the southern part is on the North Jersey Map Set (including all of the Jennings Hollow Trail) and some of the northern part is on the Appalachian Trail Map Set . 

• Allis Trail (blue) 2.5 miles
• Appalachian Trail (2x6 white blaze) 6.6 miles
• Furnace Loop Trail
• Highlands Trail (teal) (uses Allis, AT & Sterling Ridge)
• Indian Hill Loop Trail (yellow) 3.6 miles
• Jennings Hollow Trail (yellow) 3 miles
• Sterling Ridge Trail (blue on white) 8.6 miles
• Wildcat Mountain Trail  

Marked Woods Roads

• Cedar Swamp (orange)
• Cedar Pond (green)
• Lake to Lake (white)
• Fire Tower (red)
• West Valley (green)
• Sterling Valley (blue)
• Sterling Lake (yellow)
• McKeages Meadow (yellow)