Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1911-07-28
The Green Mountain Trail.


The Green Mountain Trail.
In commenting on the suggestion OF
the Green Mountain club that trail be
constructed along the summit of The
Green Mountains from the Massachu-
sets border to the Canadian boundary
line the Springfield Republican says -
"This looks like movement hack to
nature and away from the automobile,
aud those who are ready to take such a
departure must be made of sturdy stuff.
"Only by the individual tread and the
personal examination do We really know
the world in which we live. Modern
luxury is affecting everybody, and these
power wagons give their occupants
plenty of good air, while they quite
universally slur the beauties that lie
along the way. In contrast how in
finitey restfu does this proposition of
a trail over $50 miles long on the top OF
high mountains appear The sugges-
ton seems almost too good to reach
realization-and yet why not ? Time
is on the side of the mountain trail to
which it will be possible to flee from
the dusty highway and finger along IN
conformity with those primitive in
stincts that will never be outlawed. The
| danger of the contamination would lie
in the fact that fools would be tempted
that way, the folks who build fires
which they forget to extiuguish, aud
have not even rudmentary conception
of the fact that the beauties of woodland
are mans finest heritage to be carefully
conserved aud kept for the enjoyment
of generation after generation to the
farthest reach of time.
ut is manifest that the wayfarinl
man will in time demand some refuge
from the ever-circling and speeding
automobile, aud what better could bt
devised than this lodge in the wilder
ness that is talked about in Vermont
Let the folks in the Green Mountain
develop this idea of mountain-tol
trail from Massachusetts to Canada ant
the future will bring them very ricl
reward, for it is peculiarly calculated L
appeal to he people whose presence il
any state is worth bidding for ant
securing, Here is the germ of some
thing much more substantial than
midsummer dream"
This idea of a mountain trail involve
the expenditure of comparativel
small sum of money and it means som
splendid advertising for Vermont, Will
it promises to interest large numbe
of persons in and out of the state i
Vermonts mountains. The good ad
vertiser, whether he is advertising
state or a liniment, is always seeking 70
something novel. In this suggestion q
a mountain trail from one end of tn
state to the other we have somethin
decidedly novel, something that appeal
to the imagination and is not soon fol
gotten.
Papers like the Springfield Republ
can, the New York Sun and othel
already have commented with favor o
our mountain attractions. This ne
plan, if adopted win be discussed frol
) the Atlantic to the Pacific, and wi
give Vermont thousands Of dollar
worth of free advertising, because Il
other state has done anything of I'll
, sort, so far as this paper knows.
We can do this thing easily if "
really set about the task, and it wi
result, not merely in attracting cor
paratively few pilgrims who desire
tramp along the backbone of our mou
tains, but in introducing to the grei
tourist public the nobility and beau
of our mountains, the grandeur of the
outlook, their restfulness and the
health-giving quality.
We will do we'll to agitate the Gree
Mountain trail project. 1t will he
Vermont to become known as one
the great tourist states of the unio
Let us help the project along in evel
way possible. Montpelier Journal.