Green Mountain Club

Maintaining & Protecting Vermont's Long Trail Since 1910

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Our Sections

The Green Mountain Club has 14 regionally-based chapters that maintain specific areas of the Long Trail, Appalachian Trail in Vermont, and Northeast Kingdom trails. Sections and their members and volunteers are an integral part of the work the Green Mountain Club does to maintain and protect the Long Trail System.

Joining a Green Mountain Club section is a way to meet other club members in your region, enjoy local outings, and work with other section members on trail maintenance in your area. As a section member, you will receive outing schedules and newsletters from your section to keep you up-to-date on section news. Most sections have a year-round program of outings and social events. You do not have to be a member of a section in order to attend its outings. Any member can join or switch section affiliations at any time by contacting us.

Check out our outings calendar to learn more about section events and group hikes.  If you’d like to volunteer with your section, the Section Leaders’ Handbook and Trip Leader’s Handbook are valuable resources for information about doing so.  You will find contact information for each section at their website listed below.

Green Mountain Club Sections

Bennington Section

  • Location: Bennington area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Harmon Hill to Glastenbury Mountain
  • More information: meetup.com/gmcbennington

Brattleboro Section

  • Location: Brattleboro area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Winhall River to VT 11/30
  • More information: brattleborogmc.com

Bread Loaf Section

  • Location: Middlebury area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Sucker Brook Shelter to Emily Proctor Shelter
  • More information: gmcbreadloaf.org

Burlington Section

  • Location: Burlington area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Winooski River Footbridge to Smugglers’ Notch
  • More information: gmcburlington.org

Connecticut Section

  • Location: Central Connecticut area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Glastenbury Mountain to Stratton-Arlington Rd.
  • More information: conngmc.com

Killington Section

  • Location: Rutland area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: VT 140 to Maine Junction
  • More information: gmckillington.org

Laraway Section

  • Location: St. Albans/Enosburg area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Lamoille River to VT 118
  • More information: gmclaraway.org

Manchester Section

  • Location: Manchester area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: VT 11/30 to Mad Tom Notch
  • More information: gmc-manchester.org

Montpelier Section

  • Location: Montpelier area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Camel’s Hump to Winooski River Footbridge and Smugglers’ Notch to Chilcoot Pass
  • More information: gmcmontpelier.org

Northeast Kingdom Section

  • Location: Lyndonville area
  • Maintenance: Trails on Bald, Hor, Moose, Burke, Haystack, Middle, and Wheeler Mountains, Gnome Stairs and Unknown Pond trails, and GMC’s Wheeler Pond Camps
  • More information: nekgmc.org

Northern Frontier Section

  • Location: Montgomery area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Hazen’s Notch to Canada
  • More information: gmcnorthernfrontier.org

Sterling Section

  • Location: Morrisville/Stowe area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Chilcoot Pass to Lamoille River
  • More information: gmcsterling.org

Upper Valley Ottauquechee Section

  • Location: Woodstock, VT/Hanover, NH, area
  • Maintenance: Appalachian Trail: Maine Junction to NH border
  • More information: gmc-o-section.org

Worcester Section

  • Location: Worcester, MA, area
  • Maintenance: Long Trail: Stratton-Arlington Rd. to Winhall River, and Cedar Meadow Pond Camp
  • More information: gmcwoo.org

 

GMC Section Trail Maintenance

Both volunteers and paid trail crews maintain the Green Mountain Club’s trails. While pros handle big projects like building bridges and shelters or new trails, volunteers perform seasonal maintenance such as cleaning up the trail before and after winter, clearing blowdowns, trimming branches and undergrowth, painting blazes and signs, and improving drainage. Volunteers also inspect shelters and tent sites, make minor repairs, report major problems, and clean fire rings and remove trash.

Volunteer responsibilities are assigned to our fourteen sections (shown in yellow on the map below) and individual adopters (shown in orange). Every section hosts trail maintenance outings each spring and fall, and often have work parties during the hiking season as well, depending on whether they have other projects planned for the year.

Click on the map below to zoom in.

 Passing of a GMC Caretaker Pioneer: Daan Zwick

December 2, 2019

Daan Zwick was a Green Mountain Club caretaker in the 1930s, an active volunteer into the 1980s, and a generous supporter of the club. After a full and active life, he died on November 21st at his home in Rochester, New York. Daan was 97 years old. Daan’s deep commitment to the Long Trail … Read more

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Mission

The Green Mountain Club is the founder and maintainer of the Long Trail - the oldest long distance hiking trail in America. Established in 1910 to build this trail stretching the length of Vermont, the club now also maintains the Appalachian Trail in Vermont and trails in the Northeast Kingdom in its mission to "make the Vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people." Read more...

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4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road
Waterbury Center, Vermont 05677
802.244.7037 | 802.244.5867 fax | Email GMC

Visitor Center Winter Hours:
Monday-Friday, 10am-4pm
Except Tuesday, 11am to 4pm


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