Wawayanda State Park Conditions

[Kaleidopete]

Hoeferlin tr on Old Wayway rd

 

[Kaleidopete]

 

[V-Dub]

Any snowmobile sightings? I'd be great to ride some packed down trail this weekend

 

[Kaleidopete]

Any snowmobile sightings? I'd be great to ride some packed down trail this weekend

I didn't see any yesterday, just hikers and x country ski marks

 

[Kaleidopete]

some action today, furnace road and easy peasy, just past iron mt on main road

 

[Kaleidopete]

lots of snowmobile activity lately, but today was only 3° and windy

 

[icebiker]

Excellent conditions today. Stayed south (Wlidcat, Spongebob, Buddha, Gravity, Pines, rattlesnake, Thirsty Dog). Zero mud. Came across two ATV’s on Thirsty Dog doing a good job of trampling the brush alongside the singletrack 😡. No plates of course 🙄

 

[Single Speeder]

Excellent conditions today. Stayed south (Wlidcat, Spongebob, Buddha, Gravity, Pines, rattlesnake, Thirsty Dog). Zero mud. Came across two ATV’s on Thirsty Dog doing a good job of trampling the brush alongside the singletrack 😡. No plates of course 🙄

I was up there last week. Conditions were great. 3 trees I couldn't hop over and had to get off bike. Rest were smaller. Pumphouse bridge was flooded and not passable.

 

[Kaleidopete]

I was up there last week. Conditions were great. 3 trees I couldn't hop over and had to get off bike. Rest were smaller. Pumphouse bridge was flooded and not passable.

too bad about the bridge, all that work and expense and a big fail

 

[trekfan]

idk man the trails i rode on saturday were a disaster, at least on the lower elevation trails. almost completely underwater in sections. mud and massive puddles everywhere and even snow (!) still in some spots. as mentioned, the pumphouse bridge is not passable which forced me to go completely backtrack to lake loop. as an aside, i am once again begging the trail conference to revisit this bridge section and rebuild it once and for all. i am willing to contribute $$

twin bridges (the actual two bridges) was underwater last week but has receded enough to make it rideable again. i mean it was rideable last week i guess except for the part where i lost momentum and fell completely into the 3-4ft of ice water (good times...). btw HUGE thanks to whoever FINALLY cut that damned tree by the bridges

big tree down on double pond by the campground. iron mountain is a mess with mud/water, so are plymouth, double pond and the downhill sections of hofferlein. water was bb deep in spots

 

[Kaleidopete]

idk man the trails i rode on saturday were a disaster, at least on the lower elevation trails. almost completely underwater in sections. mud and massive puddles everywhere and even snow (!) still in some spots. as mentioned, the pumphouse bridge is not passable which forced me to go completely backtrack to lake loop. as an aside, i am once again begging the trail conference to revisit this bridge section and rebuild it once and for all. i am willing to contribute $$

twin bridges (the actual two bridges) was underwater last week but has receded enough to make it rideable again. i mean it was rideable last week i guess except for the part where i lost momentum and fell completely into the 3-4ft of ice water (good times...). btw HUGE thanks to whoever FINALLY cut that damned tree by the bridges

big tree down on double pond by the campground. iron mountain is a mess with mud/water, so are plymouth, double pond and the downhill sections of hofferlein. water was bb deep in spots

Yes, it's hard to find a good trail here

 

[icebiker]

Yes, it's hard to find a good trail here

This is the loop we did on Sunday. Primo conditions. No wetness anywhere. I think the trails further north (near the lake, iron mountain, double pond, two bridges, red dot) are more prone to bad conditions based on the wetlands in the area.

 

[sundaydoug]

This is the loop we did on Sunday. Primo conditions. No wetness anywhere.

Saturday I hiked with my dog on Wall, Mojo Swamp, and back to Ferber Circle via Cherry Ridge Rd. Conditions were about as good as one can expect for it being this early in the year. Especially considering how much snow we got in February.

 

[trekfan]

This is the loop we did on Sunday. Primo conditions. No wetness anywhere. I think the trails further north (near the lake, iron mountain, double pond, two bridges, red dot) are more prone to bad conditions based on the wetlands in the area.
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yeah the northern ones take a lot of effort NOT to be wet/underwater, especially in march. the problem for me is that i have to traverse them in order to get to the ones you mentioned and besides the mud, my lungs and legs just aren't there at this point in the season. too much apple strudel apparently.

unless i venture to the ferber circle entrance but the road in basically requires an atv these days

 

[sundaydoug]

unless i venture to the ferber circle entrance but the road in basically requires an atv these days

For sure that road needs some work. I got up there OK in my 4Runner but you def need some kind of higher ground clearance vehicle.

 

[sundaydoug]

For sure that road needs some work. I got up there OK in my 4Runner but you def need some kind of higher ground clearance vehicle.

Ok I take that back. Drove up there yesterday to hike with my pup and there was a guy that somehow got a Tesla Model S up there.

 

[shrpshtr325]

Ok I take that back. Drove up there yesterday to hike with my pup and there was a guy that somehow got a Tesla Model S up there.

you cant buy brains, or common sense.

 

[trekfan]

well i am very shocked to say that red dot trail is completely clear. there's a lot of debris on the floor so tread carefully but not a single downed tree. no mud either

 

[chris12453]

Was out yesterday, so can provide some updates. I cleared what I could on Plymouth, there are two trees down. There are also two on banker not far from Plymouth.

Blue hiking trail, porc u pine, mojo swamp, wall, pickle, tombstone, rattlesnake, timber are all clear. There are a couple bigger trees on hemlock/load (apologies didn’t have my phone to pin them). One is just after you cross the log bridge if coming from mojo swamp and the other is on the third segment before you get to water front staring across at pickle. Also south end and sitting bear have a few on the timber end.

Next time I won’t be dumb and bring a phone for photos. You will need chainsaws.