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The 8.5-mile Blueberry Patch course starts at the Blueberry Patch Campground parking area in the Finger Lakes National Forest in Hector. Results | Posts
- Google Maps pin showing the start/finish
- Course map
- RunGo directions (for iOS, Android, or Apple Watch)
- Bathrooms: Continue into the campground past the kiosk for several composting toilets.
Course Instructions
Start at the sign attached to the kiosk just inside the Blueberry Patch Campground parking area.
- From the Blueberry Patch Campground parking lot, run back out to Picnic Area Road and take a right.
- In a very short distance, turn right on the Burnt Hill Trail.
- At 0.66 miles, stay right on the Burnt Hill Trail and continue straight, avoiding all turns until you have crossed Matthews Road around 1.3 miles.
- Continue on the Burnt Hill Trail until about 2.0 miles, then take a left on the Interloken Trail.
- When the Interloken Trail intersects with the Gorge Trail at about 2.5 miles, turn right.
- Very shortly thereafter, at 2.63 miles, stay straight to continue on the Gorge Ponds Trail.
- Take that out to Burnt Hill Road, and turn left.
- Continue on Burnt Hill Road until it turns, just after 3.0 miles. Then leave the road to rejoin the Interloken Trail.
- Turn right on the Interloken Trail and cut around the edge of the South Burnt Hill Pond.
- Stay on the Interloken Trail past the intersection (on the right) with the South Slope Trail at about 3.45 miles.
- Continue straight on the Interloken Trail until it intersects with the Finger Lakes/North Country Trail at about 4.0 miles. Bear right to go on the Finger Lakes/North Country Trail at that point.
- Cross Burnt Hill Road and continue on the Finger Lakes/North Country Trail until 4.67 miles.
- At the Y, bear right onto South Slope Trail and follow it back around and across Burnt Hill Road until it reconnects with the Interloken Trail.
- Turn left on the Interloken Trail and retrace your steps back past the South Burnt Hill Pond and up Burnt Hill Road.
- At 5.95 miles, still retracing your steps, take a right on the Gorge Ponds Trail.
- Continue straight as the Gorge Ponds Trail turns into the Interloken Trail (avoid the right turn at 6.22 miles).
- Shortly afterward, at 6.32 miles, turn left to stay on the Interloken Trail rather than going straight on the Gorge Trail.
- Stay straight on the Interloken trail, passing the point at 6.75 miles where you previously came in from the Burnt Hill Trail.
- Keep running straight on the Interloken Trail, crossing Matthews Road at 7.3 miles, other trails off to the right and left, and the Ravin Trail on the left, continuing all the way to Picnic Area Road.
- Turn right on the road, and shortly after, turn right again into the Blueberry Patch Campground parking area.