Wawayanda State Park Conditions

[Kaleidopete]

What Ferber Circle looks like today (Thursday 1/11)

 

[pooriggy]

What's it look like up there, how much snow?

 

[Kaleidopete]

http://www.mtbnj.com/forum/threads/official-2017-2018-biyf-thread.43704/page-19#post-765741

Today the trails are pretty good, a little deep with snow, but I rode some today.
There are some quad tracks too. Snow varies from 4 to 6 inches but covers the icy spots well.
It's still 2 days 'till your ride, hard to say conditions for Saturday

 

[Kaleidopete]

If you like ice, this is the place to be. Looks like it will stay frozen all week too.

 

[Robson]

Wayway trails were surprisingly good today.

 

[qclabrat]

Ski season is going to wrap up soon, thinking to ski in the morning then head over to Wayway in the afternoon. Just realized it's really close to Mountain Creek. Is it worth riding over from the base or make better sense to just drive? Never ridden there, so help identifying the dry trails would be appreciated. Hmm, I'm going need to get myself a bear bell also...

 

[chris12453]

I know this is from earlier in the week. But for future knowledge. Drive to wayway from creek. I have the luxury of living 2.5 miles from there, but from creek to wayway is a bit of a hike.

 

[rayder]

Does anyone know what conditions are like now?

 

[V-Dub]

Does anyone know what conditions are like now?

Saw a couple pictures today, looks very wet

 

[huffster]

I spent 2.5 hours clearing a 1/2 mile section of "The Wall" today (starting at Ferber Circle). That's a pretty limited perspective on how the rest of the trails might be. The trail itself was fine, but the trees/branches were all over the trail making it impassable. That's been resolved now. The worst part was in the heavy rhododendron section. So, I'm hoping the rest of the trail is better.

 

[Kaleidopete]

I rode some trails today.
William Hoeferlin south from ranger station to Black Eagle has two trees across the trail. You can get around and over OK, but you gotta dismount.

William Hoeferlin north to the fire road is fine. So is the fire road (Old Wawa Road) and around to Iron Mt. trail is good. Iron Mt. itself is good too.
Black Eagle is clear the whole length.
Wingdam is clear of trees and brush. So is Little Bear trail.
Doublepond trail up to Red Dot and to Twin Bridges trail is good. Twin Bridges trail was clear to the Red Dot crossover.
Laurel Trail is clear of trees and brush

 

[huffster]

^ Nice. I've been on a TM kick lately, but it sure sounds like a legit ride could be had.

 

[jeffstick]

South is clear end to end, timber is clear, tombstone is clear, pump house is clear from south to cherry ridge road. Top of pines is clear but from the end of where the pines are to the bottom of turkey ridge yet unknown. red dot clear to rock bridge

 

[huffster]

Nice, nice, nice! Place is coming back together.

 

[onetracker]

Thanks for the Intel. Hoeferlin Is now clear also thru to Double Pond. DP is very wet and still has a bunch of snow. Working on Plymouth but my guess is that there is still a bunch of stuff down; I only made it approx a 1/4 mile from The DP side and it was slow going. But we have made a bunch of progress. Thanks for all of the info. It has been super helpful!!!

Come on out and race the Iron Mtn 50K. Really nice 15.6 mile loop, with approx 1,600 ft of climbing. It will be a fun course and much milder than the Bear Scat but not too easy.

I rode some trails today.
William Hoeferlin south from ranger station to Black Eagle has two trees across the trail. You can get around and over OK, but you gotta dismount.
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William Hoeferlin north to the fire road is fine. So is the fire road (Old Wawa Road) and around to Iron Mt. trail is good. Iron Mt. itself is good too.
Black Eagle is clear the whole length.
Wingdam is clear of trees and brush. So is Little Bear trail.
Doublepond trail up to Red Dot and to Twin Bridges trail is good. Twin Bridges trail was clear to the Red Dot crossover.
Laurel Trail is clear of trees and brush

 

[trekfan]

red dot is just about unrideable from about nature jim's bridge and beyond. trees and large branches down what seemed like every 200 ft or so.

 

[huffster]

Which direction? Toward Cherry Ridge or toward Double Pond?

red dot is just about unrideable from about nature jim's bridge and beyond. trees and large branches down what seemed like every 200 ft or so.

 

[trekfan]

Which direction? Toward Cherry Ridge or toward Double Pond?

Towards cherry ridge

 

[Will]

tons of medium to large trees down on wall, hemlock, load, pickle, rattlesnake, tombstone, and splitrock. picked up a ton of sticks today but needs some chainsawing.

 

[Kaleidopete]

Double Pond trail is great, until you get to the famous Wet Spot. Too muddy for me right now.

Someone "cleaned up" Wingdam trail laurels. Too well for my liking.
what it looks like now

before