Rancocas State forest is split into three areas separated by the Rancocas Creek. One area is in Mount Laurel, one in Hainesport, and the third (best area imho) in Westampton. The site is not being completely cooperative and even trying to get help from admins has proven ineffective. The problem is the whole park is split among three towns and those three sections are separate of each other with a impassable creek between them. The best trail system in my opinion are those found in Westampton. This site defaults to showing GPS data for Hainesport. Bring up the Westampton GPS data for a decent loop through various colored trails. The pictures show the map for the Westampton trail system as well.
The trail system is comprised of mostly singletrack. You'll find some downed logs to jump or ride over. Plenty of root covered paths. Most of the trails are perfectly clear while others are a little overgrown. The green trail has a Strava segment which is fun to blast through. It can be found by following the singletrack path to the right of the main gate on Powhatan Drive. When the path splits, stay to the right. The paths are easily identifiable by painted markings on the trees. If nature is your thing you'll come across plenty of squirrels, deer, streams, clearings, wild flowers, and views of the creek. I'd definitely rate these trails as beginner to intermediate depending on how fast you want to rip through them.
 | Rancocas Woods |   | 3 mi |
 | Rancocas Woods | | 4 mi |
Not sure why this place is ranked as high as it is. Very beginner friendly with no elevation or features to write home about. I remember it being a mosquito nightmare as well. This park is a one and done.
| Thanksomeone cut a new trail blazed red/white...its off of the green trail...its for hikers only..there are so many big trees laying across it, its unrideable
| ThankShort, some obstacles, beginner for sure. Winter ride, can't imagine the condition the summer
| Thank(update 11/5)
| Thanklots of new trees down everywheres...will really interrupt your flow...still a great ride tho
Just a reminder for new riders...its hunting season..throw on some bright colors and share the forest..no hunting on sundays
| Thankgood source of protein
| ThankI'm trying, zmodica--but I've eaten a lot of bugs in the process.
| ThankLots of options, both wide gravel and twisting singletrack. Some log obstacles and hills, usually the trails are empty of another traffic, so freedom to hit trails with speed. Can be very buggy and swarms of mosquitoes.
| ThankWent out yesterday and mother nature decided to rain on my parade. Green is starting to get overgrown like every year and the tics are out in force already. Picked up three.
| ThankI was here over 10 years ago, and I don't remember this many trails, or the trails being of the quality that they are today. If I'm wrong, correct me--but something really good has happened here. The trails are fun, lots of punchy ups and downs as you get closer to Rancocas Creek. Green trail, Yellow trail and Brown trail have a lot of personality. More consistent than the Hainesport side--maybe better--maybe not. Just different. Rooty in low lying areas, no rocks. A few bridges. Fun! Do it twice for a higher mileage option.
| ThankThe 4 stars are to be taken in context: In an area without a lot of trails, it's pretty damn good. Start at the end of Deacon Road and follow the blue trail. Take it to the orange, then to a dirt road. Make a right, go almost to the houses ahead and sprint left up onto a 15-20 ft. ridge. Take a left onto the green trail. Beautiful singletrack following the ridge. At the end, take red back to the beginning of blue.
| ThankBlue starts as a sandy jeep road and turns into dirt singletrack as it follows the creek. Some roots in lower lying areas. Punchy little rollers all the way through. No rocks, and many types of dirt are represented. Lots of blowdowns after recent storms. not sure who is in charge of removing them, but they are very slow. Still worth it for a quick ride. Do 2 loops if you need miles.
Someone went and put cut logs in the trenches near the downed tree on the green trail. Thank you very much. Good job.
| ThankJust a friendly reminder, hunting is now allowed in the park Monday through Saturday. No hunting on Sunday. Throw on some bright colors, share the forest
| Thankgo around towards the stream, its not that difficult to push the bike there. i let the ranger know the trees were down
| Thankafter a 2 month absence due to a work injury i returned to my favorite trails only to find the biggest damn tree ever down across the green trail and no way to go around it..good luck, that trail is dead
| Thankive been asked by the rangers and the nature center to pass the word to not ride on the blue trail and board walk,,they want them to be for hiking only..they put up a sign and will add more soon
| ThankHey again. Saw it today. Yea it's definitely from a controlled burn. Sucks that they ripped right through a few parts of green but if we ride that berm enough or just cut through it, we can get it back to normal. They did it to the other fields too. I actually rode them just to get some extra pedaling in for the day.
| Thanknot sure how to reply so ill put it here and hope you see it...its a foot wide and 4 inches deep and circles that entire field that the green trail goes by..i think the fire dept did it when they did a control burn (youll see it)...ill post a pic..we ride the same trails, we should roll together HMU [email protected]
| Thankhey, Zmodica. I will be riding the Mount Laurel side of RSF today but I was curious. What kind of trench? Does it actually cut through green somehow? I ran into some hiker back there who did not like cyclists. He was in the midst of destroying a logover. He didn't have the balls to say much to me when I passed him but was laying into my fiance when she did. After she and I started back on our way and he ran away, I saw he had had been busy throwing logs across the trail on white down near the bridge and had dismantled some other stuff. I had cleared the crap he threw all over white but now we all have to be careful of some lunatic that thinks he owns the trails. Fwiw, NJ State website explicitly states bikes are allowed back there.
| ThankWent on this my wife and two kids (10-13) and we had a blast - the main trail is rather easy and some of the connecting trails provided just enough difficulty to challenge us each in their own way with some being simple for the adults and others being to challenging for the kids. We will come back again. Ran into two groups of hikers who were great with us coming through and when we came out one of the trails in the neighborhood in the back the gentleman who live there guided us back to another entrance no problem.
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