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Recreational activities include camping and hiking on a 30-mile (48 kilometer) section of the Appalachian Trail that traverses the recreation area. There are also 61 miles (97.6 kilometers) of maintained snowmobile trails within the recreation area. Chaos Canyon is a cleft in a giant quartzite rockslide in the Area.
National Recreation Trails in Vermont (3 P) R. ... Pages in category "Hiking trails in Vermont" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Catamount Trail: 300 483 Vermont: Readsboro, Vermont: Canada–US border in North Troy, Vermont: A cross-country skiing trail which crosses the state of Vermont. Parts of the trail are only open in the winter. Chuck Keiper Trail: 50.6 81 Pennsylvania: Loop trail with cross-connector in Sproul State Forest. Chief Ladiga Trail: 33 53 Alabama ...
The Green Mountain Club is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to preserving and protecting Vermont's Long Trail. The Long Trail is the oldest long-distance hiking trail in America and stretches from the Massachusetts state line to the Canada–United States border, along the main ridge of the Green Mountains.
Green Mountains looking south from Jay Peak Jay Peak, located at the northern end of the Green Mountains in Vermont Green Mountains outside of Montpelier, Vermont. The best-known mountains—for reasons such as high elevation, ease of public access by road or trail (especially the Long Trail and Appalachian Trail), or with ski resorts or towns nearby—in the range include: [4]
The Long Trail was conceived in 1909 by James P. Taylor who was at the time the assistant headmaster of Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont.Taylor lobbied other Vermont residents who shared his dream of a mission to "make the Vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the Long Trail system and fostering, through education, the stewardship ...
The state of Vermont acquired the summit land in 1988. Today the old carriage road is a popular hiking trail. Contrary to popular belief, the concrete pad on the summit overlook is not that of the hotel but rather the foundation of a house that a young man started to build on the summit before he died overseas in a car crash.
The Catamount Trail, a 300-mile (480 km) cross-country ski trail, enters the southeastern corner of the park along Vermont Route 17. It crosses the Long Trail at Huntington Gap approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the park’s southern boundary, and then heads due north, skirting the western edge of the park’s lower elevations. [6] [8]