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East Trail
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East Trail

<p>The East Trail on Mount Philo provides a gentler, more forested alternative approach to the summit than the main Mount Philo Trail, winding through the mountain's lower eastern slopes in mature nor...

February 13, 2025
Gorge Overlook Trail
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Gorge Overlook Trail

<p>Gorge Overlook Trail traverses the rim of the Fall Creek gorge system, visiting overlook points above four separate waterfalls in a single loop. The trail follows the edge of the Cumberland Plateau...

February 12, 2025
Mount Philo Trail
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Mount Philo Trail

<p>Mount Philo State Park is the oldest state park in Vermont, established in 1924, and its 968-foot summit cliff delivers the finest accessible panorama of the Champlain Valley in the state — a sweep...

February 11, 2025
Fall Creek Falls Trail
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Fall Creek Falls Trail

<p>Fall Creek Falls Trail descends into the gorge to reach the base of Fall Creek Falls, at 256 feet the tallest free-falling waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains. The falls plunge from the Cumberlan...

February 10, 2025
Madonna Peak Loop
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Madonna Peak Loop

<p>The Madonna Peak Loop traverses three connected summits — Madonna Peak at 3,640 feet, Morse Mountain, and Sterling Mountain — on the eastern side of Smugglers' Notch State Park, utilizing a combina...

February 9, 2025
Bear Swamp Trail
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Bear Swamp Trail

<p>Bear Swamp Trail loops through the wetland and pond complex at Medoc Mountain State Park, visiting active beaver ponds and providing outstanding opportunities for wetland bird observation. The trai...

February 8, 2025
Sterling Pond Trail
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Sterling Pond Trail

<p>Sterling Pond at approximately 3,000 feet elevation is the highest pond in Vermont accessible by a maintained hiking trail, a mountain tarn of exceptional clarity and beauty cradled on a shoulder o...

February 7, 2025
Stream Loop Trail
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Stream Loop Trail

<p>Stream Loop Trail follows Little Fishing Creek through a lush bottomland forest that represents one of the most diverse ecological zones in Medoc Mountain State Park. The creek corridor supports a ...

February 6, 2025
Smugglers' Notch Trail
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Smugglers' Notch Trail

<p>Smugglers' Notch is one of the most dramatic mountain passes in New England, a narrow cleft between Mount Mansfield and Sterling Mountain through which Route 108 winds at elevations that force the ...

February 5, 2025
Summit Loop Trail
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Summit Loop Trail

<p>Summit Loop Trail reaches the granite summit of Medoc Mountain, a modest but geologically significant monadnock rising above the flat coastal plain of northeastern North Carolina. At just over 300 ...

February 4, 2025
Nebraska Notch Trail
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Nebraska Notch Trail

<p>Nebraska Notch is a deep, dramatic cleft on the western slope of Mount Mansfield, carved by glacial and post-glacial erosion into a narrow rocky defile flanked by boulder fields and old-growth bals...

February 3, 2025
Piper-Cox Connector
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Piper-Cox Connector

<p>Piper-Cox Connector winds through the heart of Eno River State Park's piedmont forest, linking trail sections along the Eno River corridor in a route that emphasizes the quiet beauty of mature upla...

February 2, 2025

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