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Carriage Road Walk
<p>The historic carriage road on Mount Philo is a relic of the mountain's early development as a summer resort destination in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when wealthy Champlain Valley fami...
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Paw Paw Trail
<p>Paw Paw Trail descends to the bottom of the Fall Creek gorge and traverses the gorge floor, crossing the creek on a dramatic cable suspension bridge that sways above the rushing water. This is the ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...