Poll Club Finder Event Finder Submit Trail Rate Trail Rate Park Submit Club Submit Event Green Mountain National Forest Hiking Vermont's National Forest comprises 50 per cent of the state's public land.
Some private property owned by utility companies or timber firms is open to recreation uses.
A few places, however, are closed to the public while some landowners forbid certain activities. Two of the nation's most beloved hiking trails wound their way along the central ridge of Vermont long before the Green Mountain National Forest became a reality in 1932. When President Hoover signed the paper establishing a Proclamation Boundary for the GMNF, the mountains were already split north to south by the Appalachian and Long Trails. The Long Trail runs 265 miles between Vermont's borders with Massachusetts and Canada. It and the Appalachian Trail are the most famous and most popular trails in Vermont.