Name: Bench Trail
Rating: 3.2

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One of Frick Park's shorter singletrack trails. It's mapped as a descent here, but it can be ridden in either direction.

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Local Club: Trail Pittsburgh

Land Manager: City of Pittsburgh, PA - Parks

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Jason Lampenrider

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3.2 from 10 votes

#22

in Frick Park

#23405

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3.2 from 10 votes

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Twisty singletrack next to edge of hillside requires regular foliage maintenance.

Aug 6, 2019 near Edgewood, PA

Singletrack zig zags between the trees on an off-camber, rooty section next to the fairway. Can be slick at times.

Aug 6, 2019 near Edgewood, PA

Clear shot of the old golf course fairway green (left) with the new growth of woods reclaiming its space and preventing invasive undergrowth (right).

Aug 6, 2019 near Edgewood, PA

This is the newly routed section above the former (until 1963) golf fairway, frequently damp during rainy seasons, because it was originally made to be flat.

Aug 6, 2019 near Edgewood, PA

This is the split about 50 feet down from the entrance near Blue Slide Playground. Horse Trough begins on the left. Photo taken standing on lower Bench, which proceeds out to the right where the sign stands.

Aug 6, 2019 near Edgewood, PA

This Bench-Horse Trough connector trail goes through the first tee on the former golf course. The Ladies' tee (Suffrage Era) is the flat spot on the left, just outside earshot of Prohibition Era "meetings" by Pittsburgh's whiskey smugglers on the right.

Aug 6, 2019 near Edgewood, PA

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Bench Trail

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1,105' 337 m

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