Ashland Pinnacle State Forest 📍

Ashland Pinnacle is the mountain next to Huntersfield Mountain in the northern most range of the Catskill Mountains. It is outside of Catskill Forest Preserve blue line, and as such much of it has been recently logged, offering good views of the Northern Catskill Mountains, accessible mostly by vehicle. It is 3,038 feet on its summit, with a truck trail crossing it col. Also, the Long Path crosses along most of the mountain ridge.

🖼️ Photos

Along the Long Path

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This is up on the ridge of South Mountain, below Ashland Pinnacle. The trail was hard to follow through this section, as a lot of trees that had blazes on them where long fallen, although for a while the trail followed the log haul road.

Saturday August 28, 2010 — Ashland Pinnacle State Forest
Map: Ketchumville State Forest
Terrain Map: Mahanoy Mountain

Following the Long Path Thru a Clear Cut

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There is a long path marker on the haul road and buffer between clear cut zones, but following it through all that logging trash was a pain, as all the markers where gone, and trail was rough. I lost the trail, then later found it again. Yet I decided to turn back, when I found the rest of the trail was all grown over and the markers where faded. A lot of the land up on Huntersfield Mountain Range is private, and I did not want to be trespassing.

Saturday August 28, 2010 — Ashland Pinnacle State Forest
Map: Hewitt State Forest