Can’t get enough of the Green Mountains? Try completing the Long Trail’s blue-blazed side trails!
- Number of side trails in the Green Mountains (spur trails to shelters not included): 88
- Total mileage: 166.1 miles
- See list of trails below.
Becoming a Certified Side-to-Sider
Once you’ve completed all the side trails, you can become a certified Long Trail Side-to-Sider!
Certified Side-to-Sider benefits:
- Complimentary one-year GMC membership (for first-time members only)
- Side-to-Side Certificate
- Side-to-Side rocker patch
- GMC logo patch
- Your name listed in the following summer’s Long Trail News!
- Knowing you are among the few and the proud who’ve hiked them all!
To apply:
- Online:
- Download and fill out the Long Trail Side-to-Side Trail Tracker, which you will upload in the online application.
- Complete the Long Trail Side-to-Side Certification Online Application (each applicant MUST submit their own application).
- Or by Mail:
- Print and fill out the paper Long Trail Side-to-Side Certification Application (each applicant MUST submit their own application).
- Mail to:
Green Mountain Club
Side-to-Side Certification
4711 Waterbury-Stowe Road
Waterbury Center, Vermont 05677
Side-to-Side applications are processed twice each year. Applicants who meet the following deadlines will be listed in the Summer edition of the Long Trail News:
- Deadline #1, if postmarked or submitted online by September 15th you can expect to receive your certificate and patch in October.
- Deadline #2, if postmarked or submitted online by February 1st you can expect to receive your certificate and patch in March. (If you submit your application after February 1st your name will not be listed in the Long Trail News until the following year.)
Side Trails of the Long Trail
Download this handy spreadsheet to keep track of your Side-to-Side progress. List based upon the Long Trail Guide 28th Edition listings of side (blue-blazed) trails.
Division 1
- Broad Brook Trail – 4.0 miles
Division 2
- Bald Mountain Trail (two sections) – 5.9 miles
- Little Pond Trail – 0.5 miles
- West Ridge Trail – 7.8 miles
Division 3
- Branch Pond Trail – 8.3 miles
- Lye Brook Trail – 9.7 miles
- Stratton Pond Trail – 3.7 miles
- Wanderer Trail – 2.4 miles
- Stratton Ridge Trail–0.7 mile
Division 4
- Baker Peak Trail — 0.9 mile
- Green Mountain Trail & Connector – 4.7 miles
- Griffith Lake Trail – 2.0 miles
- Homer Stone Brook Trail – 2.3 miles
- Keewaydin Trail — 0.4 mile
- Lake Trail – 3.3 miles
- Little Rock Pond Loop — 0.4 mile
- Old Job Trail – 5.4 miles
- White Rocks Cliff Trail — 0.2 mile (Overlook)
Division 5
- Black Swamp Trail – 2.2 miles
- Bucklin Trail – 3.5 miles
- Killington Peak Spur — 0.2 mile
- Pico Link Trail — 0.4 mile
- Sherburne Pass Trail (south) – 3.1 miles
- Shrewsbury Peak Trail – 4.0 miles
Division 6
- Chittenden Brook Trail – 3.7 miles
- Deer Leap Trail – 1.7 miles
- Deer Leap Overlook Spur – 0.2 mile
- New Boston Trail – 1.2 miles
- Sherburne Pass Trail (north) — 0.5 mile
Division 7
- Burnt Hill Trail – 2.2 miles
- Clark Brook Trail – 3.0 miles
- Cooley Glen Trail – 3.2 miles
- Emily Proctor Trail – 3.5 miles
- Silent Cliff Trail — 0.4 mile
- Skylight Pond Trail – 2.6 miles
- Sucker Brook Trail – 1.0 mile
Division 8
- Battell Trail – 2.0 miles
- Beane Trail – 1.5 miles
- Jerusalem Trail – 2.4 miles
- Stark Mountain Trail – 2.4 miles
- Sunnyside Trail — 0.4 mile
Division 9
- Allis Trail — 0.3 mile
- Alpine Trail – 1.7 miles
- Burrows-Forest City Connector — 0.1 mile
- Burrows Trail – 2.1 miles
- Duck Brook Trail – 5.4 miles
- Dean Trail – 1.0 mile
- Forest City Trail – 2.2 miles
- Monroe Trail – 3.1 miles
- Hedgehog Brook Trail – 2.0 miles
Division 10
- Adam’s Apple Trail — 0.2 mile
- Amherst Trail — 0.3 mile
- Beaver Meadow Trail – 2.3 miles
- Butler Lodge Trail – 1.8 miles
- Cantilever Rock Trail — 0.2 mile
- Canyon North Extension — 0.6 mile
- Canyon North Trail — 0.6 mile
- Canyon Trail — 0.6 mile
- Chilcoot Trail — 0.8 mile
- Clara Bow Trail — 0.4 mile
- Cliff Trail – 1.1 miles
- Elephant’s Head Trail — 0.7 mile
- Forehead Bypass – 1.2 miles
- Frost Trail – 1.4 miles
- Halfway House Trail – 0.9 miles
- Haselton Trail – 1.6 miles
- Hell Brook Cutoff — 0.7 miles
- Hell Brook Trail – 1.5 miles
- Lake Mansfield Trail – 1.6 miles
- Lakeview Trail — 0.8 mile
- Laura Cowles Trail – 1.4 miles
- Maple Ridge Trail – 1.3 miles
- Nebraska Notch Trail – 1.5 miles
- Profanity Trail — 0.5 mile
- Rock Garden Trail – 0.6 miles
- Sterling Pond Trail – 1.1 miles
- Sunset Ridge Trail – 2.0 miles
- South Link — 0.6 mile
- Subway Trail — 0.3 mile
- Wallace Cutoff — 0.1 mile
- Wampahoofus Trail — 0.60 mile
- Whiteface Trail – 1.0 mile
Division 11
- Babcock Trail – 1.4 miles
- Babcock Trail Extension — 0.4 mile
- Davis Neighborhood Trail – 1.5 miles
- Frank Post Trail – 2.0 miles
- Forester’s Trail – 2.1 miles
Division 12
- Journey’s End Trail – 1.3 miles
