Hike Reviews
December 31, 2019
Thank you!!!
Thank you for the link. Sorry about the double post!
December 31, 2019
Link to updated map of Highlands Trail
<p>Unfortunately, the Morris County Park Commission has not yet updated its map of Mahlon Dickerson County Reservation to show the major reroute of the Highlands Trail. A sketch map of the reroute is available at www.nynjtc.org/sites/default/files/u2513/mahlon%20reroute%209-19.jpg</p>
December 31, 2019
updated map?
Happy New Year. With the detours and changes to the Highlands Trail, is there an updated map online that we can follow? The Park Commission map was last updated on 6/2016.
November 12, 2019
Thanks for posting your comment!
<p>Thank you so much for posting your comment! As a result, I have been alterted to a very significant change in the route of the Highlands Trail that has a major impact on the entire trail system in Mahlon Dickerson. No one had previously alerted me to this change. I have now revised the hike so that it follows the new route of the Highlands Trail (which also reduces the length of the hike by a mile).</p>
November 10, 2019
More changes here..
Hiked here 11/10 . There are some very confusing trail closures and detours here . The Highlands trail is closed at the T intersection where the bench is located and you can no longer turn right. I followed the detour which is a combined yellow rectangle and a teal diamond to the left. This led to a couple of Y's and T's and by chance got to the Headley Overlook . ( my map is 2011 edition and basically useless). A bit further along the teal trail I took an unmarked trail to the left which on my old map was marked yellow' and it brought me back to the yellow marked trail then to an intersection with a kiosk which had a current map. I followed the white marked trail to a T and a hand written sign by the TheHighlandsTrail.org that directed me to a dirt road leading back to Saffin Pond. Am ordering the new maps ASAP. All in all a nice park with nice views.
August 23, 2015
Hike has been updated
<p>Today, I walked the entire hike and updated it as necessary. As to your comment regarding the railbed of the Ogden Mine Railroad, it should be noted that the park map shows this railbed as a green-blazed trail. There is a single green blaze just south of the intersection with the orange-blazed woods road, which shows that you are on the correct route, but as of this writing, there are no other green blazes along the railbed.</p>
April 28, 2013
time for an update
<p>This needs a few corrections. Where it says "The trail descends to reach a junction in a pine forest...", that is a hemlock forest. Also, the trail going sharply to the left in the hemlock forest is now blazed orange - there are three orange blazes to indicate where to make the left. There are no longer blue blazes on this segment, and only a couple of yellow markers. The railbed is not so obvious (could be a woods road), but there are three orange blazes to indicate the end of that segment - "when you see the orange blazes, turn left onto the Ogden Mine railbed". This reservation is a beautiful spot.</p>