Long Trail
America's oldest long-distance hiking trail follows the Green Mountains for 272 miles from the Massachusetts border to the Canadian border.
At a glance
- Starts in
- Massachusetts state line
- Ends in
- Canadian border (Journey's End)
- Length
- 438 km
- On foot
- ≈ 18–22 days
- Countries
- United States
About the trail
The Long Trail was built in the early twentieth century by the Green Mountain Club and later inspired the Appalachian Trail, with which it shares the first 100 miles. North of the split it gets steeper and rougher, crossing Vermont's highest summits, including Mount Mansfield and Camel's Hump, on rocky, often muddy paths with simple shelters along the way.
A thru-hike takes a few weeks. Most hikers go north in summer or early autumn, and the club asks walkers to stay off the high trails during the spring mud season, when the soil is easily damaged.
Trails it meets
No source gives the days on foot, so they are worked out from the length at 20–25 km a day.