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Maintaining & Protecting Vermont's Long Trail Since 1910

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Available Trails and Shelters

Help enhance the hiking experience for everyone by becoming a Trail Adopter. We can help you get started on basic maintenance of a trail or shelter. Whether you want to volunteer on your own, with your family, or with your outing group, maintaining a section of the Long Trail, side trail, Vermont AT, or a GMC shelter is a great way to give back to the Green Mountains.  Contact us to learn more about the program or to sign up as a trail or shelter adopter.

Trail Adopter Position Description
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Available Shelters

  • Tillotson Camp, Lowell, VT

Available Trails

Southern Vermont:

  • LT: USFS 71 to Stratton Arlington Rd, 2.0 miles
  • LT: Old Job Trail Jct to Baker Peak Trail Jct- 1.8 miles
  • Baker Peak Trail- 0.9 miles

Central Vermont: 

  • LT: Bread Loaf Mountain to Clark Brook Trail- 2.0 miles

Northern Vermont:

  • LT: Lincoln Peak to Mt. Ellen Summit: 2.6 miles
  • LT: Hedgehog Brook Trail to Ladder Ravine: 0.8 miles
  • Monroe Trail: Dean Trail Jct to LT: 1.8 miles
  • LT: Buchanan Spur to Harrington’s View: 1.0 miles
  • LT: Elephants Head spur to Sterling Pond Trail: 1.0 miles
  • Sterling Pond Trail: VT-108 to Long Trail: 1.1 miles
  • Beaver Meadow Loop Trail: 0.4 miles
  • Chilcoot Trail: 0.8 miles
  • Whiteface Trail: 1.0 miles
  • LT: Whiteface Trail Jct to Bear Hollow Shelter: 3.1 miles
  • LT: Bear Hollow Shelter to West Settlement Rd: 3.2 miles

Appalachian Trail:

  • AT: Thundering Falls Boardwalk, 0.2 miles

Northeast Kingdom:

The Green Mountain Club’s Northeast Kingdom Section maintains a list of NEK-area trails which are up for adoption. Visit their page here: Northeast Kingdom Section Trail Adoption

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Artists of the Long Trail

December 2, 2023

From climbs that take your breath away to the iconic silhouette of Camel’s Hump, the Long Trail inspires artists as well as hikers — and has done so for more than 100 years. The artists profiled below substantiate their love of and inspiration from the Green Mountains on paper – and in the metal … 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
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