American Trails and the Professional Trail Builders Association announces RFP for presentations
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Plans for long-distance mountain bike route in Vermont take step forward with 1st piece of ‘Velomont’ trail
VT Digger
A new multiday mountain bike trail opened this summer in central Vermont — the culmination of almost a decade of work by myriad organizations and volunteers.
The ‘Heart of the Greens’ loop runs up to Chittenden Brook Hut in the Green Mountain National Forest as well as through downtown Rochester and Pittsfield. The adaptive trail comes in at just under 39 miles total with around 6,000 feet of vertical gain and loss — if you decide to ride (or hike) it in full.
But the new multiuse trail is just the first piece of the Velomont: a long-distance mountain bike trail that is expected to run 485 miles from Massachusetts to the Canadian border, crisscrossing Vermont and linking together existing mountain bike networks.
Sen. Peter Welch visits the 1st adaptive mountain bike trail network in Vermont
VT Digger
The trail network is expected to make mountain biking more accessible to adaptive riders, and recreation and tourism leaders see a potential economic boost.
Hikers and cyclists can now cross Vermont on New England’s longest rail trail, a year after floods
AP News
A year after epic summer flooding delayed the official opening of New England’s longest rail trail, the 93-mile route across northern Vermont is finally delivering on the promise made years ago of a cross-state recreation trail.
This new trail network is the first in Vermont that’s fully accessible to adaptive mountain bikes
Vermont Public
One recent summery evening, as the sun turns gold and the flies grow more persistent, a bunch of people park their cars in a field in Bolton, and pull out their mountain bikes.
Effort to make more Vermont trails accessible to all
WCAX
Vermont Land Trust’s Brewster Trails is being improved to make trails more accessible to all.
