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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 ...
Long Trail State Forest protects 9,529 acres (38.56 km 2) around a portion of the Long Trail, a 271 miles (436 km) hiking trail in Vermont. The forest runs through Belvidere , Eden , Lowell , Johnson , Montgomery , Waterville and Westfield in Franklin , Lamoille and Orleans counties. [ 1 ]
With a total of 22,330 acres (9,040 ha), the wilderness is the second largest in Vermont (next to the Breadloaf Wilderness). [3] It was created by the New England Wilderness Act of 2006. [4] The Long Trail (which coincides with the Appalachian Trail in this region) crosses the entire length of the wilderness from south to north. The wilderness ...
Map of Green Mountain National Forest. Green Mountain National Forest is a national forest located in Vermont, a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest typical of the New England/Acadian forests ecoregion. The forest supports a variety of wildlife, including beaver, moose, coyote, black bear, white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and ruffed grouse.
The Long Trail, a 272-mile (438 km) hiking trail running the length of Vermont, crosses Appalachian Gap between Stark Mountain to the south, and Baby Stark Mountain to the north. The Gap is a very popular route for tourists and affords excellent views of the Champlain Valley, Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains.
In addition to being the steward of the Long Trail, the Club's advocacy and education efforts also protect Vermont's many other hiking trails. Through its land protection program in northern Vermont, the Club has protected almost 80 miles of the Long Trail System, conserved 25,099 acres, and completed 89 land and easement acquisitions since 1986.
Welden, a freshman at Bennington College, left campus early in the afternoon, walking and hitchhiking six miles to the Long Trail which, at that time, crossed Route 9 near Harbour Road. [9] One of the last confirmed sightings of Welden was by a local man who gave her a ride from the college to a site on Route 9 about two miles west of the Long ...
The result was the Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine. [4] In southern Vermont, the two trails are coincident, crossing the summit of Stratton from south to north. A short (.75-mile), relatively flat side trail leads from the summit to the Stratton Mountain Resort.