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Hiking the Long Trail Side-to-Side

The Rock Garden Trail is one of the 88 side trails.
The Rock Garden Trail is one of the 88 side trails. Photo by: Amy Potter

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:

  1. Complimentary one-year GMC membership (for first-time members only)
  2. Side-to-Side Certificate
  3. Side-to-Side rocker patch
  4. GMC logo patch
  5. Your name listed in the following summer’s Long Trail News!
  6. Knowing you are among the few and the proud who’ve hiked them all!

To apply:

  • Online:
    1. Download and fill out the Long Trail Side-to-Side Trail Tracker, which you will upload in the online application.
    2. Complete the Long Trail Side-to-Side Certification Online Application (each applicant MUST submit their own application).
  • Or by Mail:
    1. Print and fill out the paper Long Trail Side-to-Side Certification Application (each applicant MUST submit their own application).
    2. 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

  1. Broad Brook Trail – 4.0 miles

Division 2

  1. Bald Mountain Trail (two sections) – 5.9 miles
  2. Little Pond Trail – 0.5 miles
  3. West Ridge Trail – 7.8 miles

Division 3

  1. Branch Pond Trail – 8.3 miles
  2. Lye Brook Trail – 9.7 miles
  3. Stratton Pond Trail – 3.7 miles
  4. Wanderer Trail – 2.4 miles
  5. Stratton Ridge Trail–0.7 mile

Division 4

  1. Baker Peak Trail — 0.9 mile
  2. Green Mountain Trail & Connector – 4.7 miles
  3. Griffith Lake Trail – 2.0 miles
  4. Homer Stone Brook Trail – 2.3 miles
  5. Keewaydin Trail — 0.4 mile
  6. Lake Trail – 3.3 miles
  7. Little Rock Pond Loop — 0.4 mile
  8. Old Job Trail – 5.4 miles
  9. White Rocks Cliff Trail — 0.2 mile (Overlook)

Division 5

  1. Black Swamp Trail – 2.2 miles
  2. Bucklin Trail – 3.5 miles
  3. Killington Peak Spur — 0.2 mile
  4. Pico Link Trail — 0.4 mile
  5. Sherburne Pass Trail (south) – 3.1 miles
  6. Shrewsbury Peak Trail – 4.0 miles

Division 6

  1. Chittenden Brook Trail – 3.7 miles
  2. Deer Leap Trail – 1.7 miles
  3. Deer Leap Overlook Spur – 0.2 mile
  4. New Boston Trail – 1.2 miles
  5. Sherburne Pass Trail (north) — 0.5 mile

Division 7

  1. Burnt Hill Trail – 2.2 miles
  2. Clark Brook Trail – 3.0 miles
  3. Cooley Glen Trail – 3.2 miles
  4. Emily Proctor Trail – 3.5 miles
  5. Silent Cliff Trail — 0.4 mile
  6. Skylight Pond Trail – 2.6 miles
  7. Sucker Brook Trail – 1.0 mile

Division 8

  1. Battell Trail – 2.0 miles
  2. Beane Trail – 1.5 miles
  3. Jerusalem Trail – 2.4 miles
  4. Stark Mountain Trail – 2.4 miles
  5. Sunnyside Trail — 0.4 mile

Division 9

  1. Allis Trail — 0.3 mile
  2. Alpine Trail – 1.7 miles
  3. Burrows-Forest City Connector — 0.1 mile
  4. Burrows Trail – 2.1 miles
  5. Duck Brook Trail – 5.4 miles
  6. Dean Trail – 1.0 mile
  7. Forest City Trail – 2.2 miles
  8. Monroe Trail – 3.1 miles
  9. Hedgehog Brook Trail – 2.0 miles

Division 10

  1. Adam’s Apple Trail — 0.2 mile
  2. Amherst Trail — 0.3 mile
  3. Beaver Meadow Trail – 2.3 miles
  4. Butler Lodge Trail – 1.8 miles
  5. Cantilever Rock Trail — 0.2 mile
  6. Canyon North Extension — 0.6 mile
  7. Canyon North Trail — 0.6 mile
  8. Canyon Trail — 0.6 mile
  9. Chilcoot Trail — 0.8 mile
  10. Clara Bow Trail — 0.4 mile
  11. Cliff Trail – 1.1 miles
  12. Elephant’s Head Trail — 0.7 mile
  13. Forehead Bypass – 1.2 miles
  14. Frost Trail – 1.4 miles
  15. Halfway House Trail – 0.9 miles
  16. Haselton Trail – 1.6 miles
  17. Hell Brook Cutoff — 0.7 miles
  18. Hell Brook Trail – 1.5 miles
  19. Lake Mansfield Trail – 1.6 miles
  20. Lakeview Trail — 0.8 mile
  21. Laura Cowles Trail – 1.4 miles
  22. Maple Ridge Trail – 1.3 miles
  23. Nebraska Notch Trail – 1.5 miles
  24. Profanity Trail — 0.5 mile
  25. Rock Garden Trail – 0.6 miles
  26. Sterling Pond Trail – 1.1 miles
  27. Sunset Ridge Trail – 2.0 miles
  28. South Link — 0.6 mile
  29. Subway Trail — 0.3 mile
  30. Wallace Cutoff — 0.1 mile
  31. Wampahoofus Trail — 0.60 mile
  32. Whiteface Trail – 1.0 mile

Division 11

  1. Babcock Trail – 1.4 miles
  2. Babcock Trail Extension — 0.4 mile
  3. Davis Neighborhood Trail – 1.5 miles
  4. Frank Post Trail – 2.0 miles
  5. Forester’s Trail – 2.1 miles

Division 12

  1. Journey’s End Trail – 1.3 miles

Big News for Strategic Conservation of the Long Trail System

May 1, 2025

This article appears in the 2025 Spring Long Trail News and was written by GMC Director of Conservation Mollie Flanigan. In previous editions I've described the process of developing the Green Mountain Club Strategic Conservation Plan that outlines our road map to permanently protecting the Long … Read more

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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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