Butternut Trail is a 2.1 mile moderately trafficked loop trail located near Forksville, Pennsylvania that features a river and is rated as moderate. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, and nature trips and is best used from March until October. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
Users recommend doing this hike counter clockwise.
Beautiful trail. The rock scrambles were a little icy but not too difficult. Lovely hike for a sunny winters day
Markers very visible which makes it nice for new hikers. Leaves made it pretty slippery and hard to see your footings
We went up the upper and down the lower trail. ITrail was rocky and with some nice elevation gain in the beginning, not too steep. There was one section around the halfway point that was very rocky and tough to get through. Some sections were also quite narrow. A bit disappointed the waterfall was just a few drops as we had so little rain. Also the leaves make it tough to see all the rocks you could step on.
a pretty exhausting little loops. definitely go on the lower trail to start, will make the hike that much easier. the view is pretty spectacular in the fall. very little traffic, almost had the trail to our selves.
I didn’t quite expect that level of difficulty, I went counter clockwise and whew, it was a good workout! Sweating hard to reach the vista that was totally worth it. Not a long hike, but the stream bed was dried up. I can imagine it would be really cool if it was flowing.
I’m a 66 year-old occasional hiker. Did the Trail with my son and two granddaughters aged 11 and 16. Although we did have a good outing, the trail is a bit of a brute. We were glad when we were done. Counterclockwise on the loop is the way to go. Beware the section from where you bear left on the lower road and all the way to the vista is difficult! Steady sometimes steep uphill over a very rocky trail. The vista was a good reward. Would I do it again? Maybe in the spring when the water is running and the waterfalls are active. The stream beds were dry when we did it.