Side to Side

Hiking the Long Trail Side-to-Side

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
• Certification requirements: Complete the online application or mail your journal to GMC
• Certification perks: rocker patch, award certificate, and knowing you are among the few and the proud who’ve hiked them all!
• Applicants who send in materials by February 1st will be listed in the summer edition of the Long Trail News.

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Side Trails of the Long Trail

For side-to-side certification
Updated November 2017
Based upon the Long Trail Guide 28th Edition listings of side (blue-blazed) trails

You can download a handy spreadsheet to keep track of your Side-to-Side progress here.

Division 1

1. Broad Brook Trail – 4.0 miles

Division 2

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

Division 3

5. Branch Pond Trail – 8.3 miles
6. Lye Brook Trail – 9.7 miles
7. Stratton Pond Trail – 3.7 miles
8. Wanderer Trail – 2.4 miles
9. Stratton Ridge Trail–0.7 mile

Division 4

10. Baker Peak Trail — 0.9 mile
11. Green Mountain Trail & Connector – 4.7 miles
12. Griffith Lake Trail – 2.0 miles
13. Homer Stone Brook Trail – 2.3 miles
14. Keewaydin Trail — 0.4 mile
15. Lake Trail – 3.3 miles
16. Little Rock Pond Loop — 0.4 mile
17. Old Job Trail – 5.4 miles
18. White Rocks Cliff Trail — 0.2 mile (Overlook)

Division 5

19. Black Swamp Trail – 2.2 miles
20. Bucklin Trail – 3.5 miles
21. Killington Peak Spur — 0.2 mile
22. Pico Link Trail — 0.4 mile
23. Sherburne Pass Trail (south) – 3.1 miles
24. Shrewsbury Peak Trail – 4.0 miles

Division 6

25. Chittenden Brook Trail – 3.7 miles
26. Deer Leap Trail – 1.7 miles
27. Deer Leap Overlook Spur – 0.2 mile
28. New Boston Trail – 1.2 miles
29. Sherburne Pass Trail (north) — 0.5 mile

Division 7

30. Burnt Hill Trail – 2.2 miles
31. Clark Brook Trail – 3.0 miles
32. Cooley Glen Trail – 3.2 miles
33. Emily Proctor Trail – 3.5 miles
34. Silent Cliff Trail — 0.4 mile
35. Skylight Pond Trail – 2.6 miles
36. Sucker Brook Trail – 1.0 mile

Division 8

37. Battell Trail – 2.0 miles
38. Beane Trail – 1.5 miles
39. Jerusalem Trail – 2.4 miles
40. Stark Mountain Trail – 2.4 miles
41. Sunnyside Trail — 0.4 mile

Division 9

42. Allis Trail — 0.3 mile
43. Alpine Trail – 1.7 miles
44. Burrows-Forest City Connector — 0.1 mile
45. Burrows Trail – 2.1 miles
46. Duck Brook Trail – 5.4 miles
47. Dean Trail – 1.0 mile
48. Forest City Trail – 2.2 miles
49. Monroe Trail – 3.1 miles
50. Hedgehog Brook Trail – 2.0 miles

Division 10

51. Adam’s Apple Trail — 0.2 mile
52. Amherst Trail — 0.3 mile
53. Beaver Meadow Trail – 2.3 miles
54. Butler Lodge Trail – 1.8 miles
55. Cantilever Rock Trail — 0.2 mile
56. Canyon North Extension — 0.6 mile
57. Canyon North Trail — 0.6 mile
58. Canyon Trail — 0.6 mile
59. Chilcoot Trail — 0.8 mile
60. Clara Bow Trail — 0.4 mile
61. Cliff Trail – 1.1 miles
62. Elephant’s Head Trail — 0.7 mile
63. Forehead Bypass – 1.2 miles
64. Frost Trail – 1.4 miles
65. Halfway House Trail – 0.9 miles
66. Haselton Trail – 1.6 miles
67. Hell Brook Cutoff — 0.7 miles
68. Hell Brook Trail – 1.5 miles
69. Lake Mansfield Trail – 1.6 miles
70. Lakeview Trail — 0.8 mile
71. Laura Cowles Trail – 1.4 miles
72. Maple Ridge Trail – 1.3 miles
73. Nebraska Notch Trail – 1.5 miles
74. Profanity Trail — 0.5 mile
75. Rock Garden Trail – 0.6 miles
76. Sterling Pond Trail – 1.1 miles
77. Sunset Ridge Trail – 2.0 miles
78. South Link — 0.6 mile
79. Subway Trail — 0.3 mile
80. Wallace Cutoff — 0.1 mile
81. Wampahoofus Trail — 0.60 mile
82. Whiteface Trail – 1.0 mile

Division 11

83. Babcock Trail – 1.4 miles
84. Babcock Trail Extension — 0.4 mile
85. Davis Neighborhood Trail – 1.5 miles
86. Frank Post Trail – 2.0 miles
87. Forester’s Trail – 2.1 miles

Division 12

88. Journey’s End Trail – 1.3 miles