Author: Green Mountain Club
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Conservation Partners Secure Further Protection of the Long Trail and Surrounding Corridor
Waterbury, VT – The Green Mountain Club (GMC), Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB) and the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation (FPR) have conserved the Deer Camp property in Johnson, Vermont. The 12-acre parcel is now owned and managed by FPR as part of Long Trail State Forest. As an addition to the…
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Fighting Emerald Ash Borer on the Appalachian Trail
This article appears in the 2025 Summer Long Trail News as “Fighting Invasive Species on the Appalachian Trail: The Emerald Ash Borer Has Spread Throughout Vermont in Recent Years.” It was written by GMC Land Stewardship Coordinator Rowan Kamman. Spend time in Vermont forests and you’ll encounter ash trees. These common trees have distinctive X-patterned…
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Big News for Strategic Conservation of the Long Trail System
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 Trail System. Plans are great, and strategic plans are…
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Restoring Taft Lodge: A Labor of Love for Historical Preservation
This article appears in the 2025 Spring Long Trail News and was written by GMC Project Coordinator Justin Towers. One of the larger field projects this summer will be structural repairs to Taft Lodge, the oldest, largest, and second-highest shelter on the Long Trail. After a rebuild in 1996 and successful log replacements in 2016, the…
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Hiking the Triple Tiara
This article appears in the 2025 Spring Long Trail News and was written by thru-hiker, ultrarunner, and LGBTQ advocate Aubri Drake. Watch the recording of Aubri’s 2025 Outdoor Adventure Speaker Series presentation for more stories and information about their experience hiking the Triple Tiara. Many hikers aspire to thru-hike the three “Triple Crown” long-distance trails:…
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Protect the Trails during Vermont’s Spring mud season
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 2, 2025CONTACT: Chloe Miller, Communications Manager at Green Mountain Club, , 907-632-7405 Waterbury Center, Vermont – Following a particularly snowy winter, a warm stretch and rapid thaw last month have quickly transitioned the Green Mountains to mud season. The Green Mountain Club encourages trail users to avoid muddy trails, follow any…
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Field Notes – Winter 2024
Trail crews, caretakers, volunteers and contractors finished important trail and structure projects and started others in a field season marked by early rain, summer drought, another historic flood, and one of the most glorious autumns in recent memory. One trail crew worked on the North Country Trail, a National Scenic Trail recently extended into Vermont,…
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Strategic Conservation Plan Adopted for Long Trail System Protection
This article appears in the 2024 Fall Long Trail News and was written by Mollie Flanigan, GMC’s Director of Land Conservation. Thirty-seven years ago the Green Mountain Club undertook a monumental task – to protect the Long Trail by conserving the land around it, thus ensuring a permanent route and a protected scenic landscape. Much…
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Building the New Forest City Trail Bridge
This article appears in the 2024 Fall Long Trail News under the title, “Building Bridges: New Forest City Trail Bridge Open to Hikers.” Introduction written by Communications Manager Chloe Miller with photos and captions by Communications Coordinator Lily LaRegina. This season, GMC’s backcountry carpenters, Andrew Muller and Dylan Norris, led by Justin Towers, built a…
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Middlebury College Grants Trail Right-of-Way to Green Mountain Club
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 29, 2024 Media Contacts: Chloe Miller, Green Mountain Club Communication Manager, , (907) 632-7405 Jon Reidel, Middlebury College Director of Media Relations, , 802-443-4208 Middlebury College Grants Trail Right-of-Way to Green Mountain Club 1.5 miles of Long Trail permanently protected WATERBURY, VT – Middlebury College has donated a trail right-of-way…