After three years of work, a full top-to-bottom rehabilitation of the popular Burrows Trail on Vermont’s Camel’s Hump has been completed.
The 2.1-mile Burrows Trail starts in Huntington, Vermont and runs up the fall line of Camel’s Hump before intersecting with the Long Trail to reach the summit.
The trail was built more than 100 years ago – before modern sustainable trail design standards – and it is one of the most traveled trails in Vermont.
Officials with the Green Mountain Club said the trail had not seen extensive maintenance before, and it had experienced significant erosion due to heavy hiker traffic and water runoff.
The Green Mountain Club and the Vermont Department of Forest, Parks, and Recreation spearheaded the rehabilitation project, which took 70 weeks over three years to complete.
The newly rebuilt trail includes dozens of stone staircases and chesksteps, rehabilitated waterbars, and two short relocations on the lower portion of the trail.