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108 Years of GMC in Pictures

March 15, 2018 by Kristin McLane 2 Comments

On March 11, 2018, the Green Mountain Club turned 108 years old!  Take a look at some of the highlights of our long history:

1910

The Green Mountain Club is founded in Burlington.

April 1910 issue of The Vermonter magazine (Click to zoom in)

1917

The first guidebook with maps is published.

1922

The first issue of the Green Mountain News is published, later retitled the Long Trail News.

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1923

GMC Headquarters opens in Rutland.

Minerva Hinchey at work

1930

The Long Trail is completed from Massachusetts to Quebec.

A view from Journey’s End, 1934

1930

The Long Trail Patrol is established to maintain the Long Trail.

1930s – 1950s

Construction and reconstruction of a large number of shelters.

Carmel Camp, one of the last shelters to be replaced in this time period

1942

Formal recognition of End-to-End hikers begins with thirty-two special certificates.

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1969

Summit caretakers begin work on Mount Mansfield and Camel’s Hump.

Taylor Lodge Caretakers, 1972

1971

The Vermont General Assembly passes a resolution recognizing the Club as the “founder, sponsor, defender, and protector” of the Long Trail System and delegating to it responsibility for developing policies and programs for the “preservation, maintenance, and proper use of hiking trails for the benefit of the people of Vermont.”

1971 Long Trail Guide cover

1986

The Long Trail Protection Program begins.

One of the first conserved parcels

1992

GMC moves to permanent headquarters in Waterbury Center.

2009

The new visitor center opens after 2003 fire.

2009

The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources approves the Green Mountain Club as corridor manager for hiking trails in the Northeast Kingdom.

2010

GMC celebrates its 100th anniversary.

2011

The Green Mountain Club becomes the sole maintainer of the Appalachian Trail in Vermont.

2014

All but 6.5 miles of the Long Trail are permanently protected.

Corridor monitors, an important part of our land protection program

2015

The Winooski River Footbridge opens.

2017

The centennial edition of the Long Trail Guide is published.

What’s next?

The Green Mountain Club is supported by 9,500 members and over 1,000 volunteers each year.  Join us as we move into the future and continue to make the Vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people.

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Comments

  1. David Wright says

    February 27, 2020 at 3:33 pm

    The date of 1923 in this timeline should show the Green Mountain Clubhouse, Long Trail Lodge, built that year. The photo of Minerva Hinchey in the Green Mountain Club office in Rutland was obviously taken in the 1950s or 1960s.

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    […] If you don’t have a copy of the Long Trail Guide or are using an older edition, please consider picking up a new copy. Not only will you be hiking with the best possible information available on the Long Trail system, you will be helping to support the Green Mountain Club, a member-supported, nonprofit organization that has maintained and protected the Long Trail since 1910. […]

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