"Hot, hard hike. Drove up Saddleback Mountain Rd. until I came to the sign that threatens arrest if you drive past the sign. Seeing no "no parking" signs before the sign, I decide that my legs did not count as vehicular traffic so I parked and walked up the road. Near the end of the road but before the radio station, the Tras Berg Eagles Scouts have developed a lovely trail that leads up to Parsonage Lot Town Forest. The trail is very well cut in the beginning and there is no need for trail markers. Halfway there is a large pine that has fallen across the trail. On the other side of the pine is a mountain brook. It was dry so no splash break for Maverick. Poor guy. After the mountain stream, the woods thin out into mostly pines. Trail markers begin to appear. Follow the orange arrows up to Parsonage town lot. Its about a mile from where you park. Saddleback has three humps at the top and Parsonage is not the highest peak. The peak is about a half-mile of bushwacking away. The trail to the peak is faint. You have to descend down one gully and up a hump then down another much steeper gully and up the final hump to the summit. There are no views of anything but the trees and rock of th..." — FL2NH • Jun 19, 2020

"Hiked up the access road and bushwhacked to the summit. Looks like someone did some camping up there a long time ago as there's remnants of what looks like an old stonewall shelter and a spot for a campfire. 3 miles round trip." — Selrahc2nd • Sep 9, 2013

"Hiked Saddleback, for the first time, w/ my cousin Kris today. Nice lil' hike, but not as clearly marked as I would've liked- partly due to a felled tree that was hiding a trail marker that caused us about 30 minutes of back tracking. Great views from a vista shortly after leaving NMSP. The area where the highest viewpoint is was fenced in due to the NHPTV tower being there- so not as much of a wilderness feel there w/ barbed wire and the tower itself. Very peaceful hike all-in-all though. Looks like it would be fun to Snow Shoe (Should the snow finally decide to arrive)." — CiccheMariti • Jan 2, 2012