Mountain Biking Trails in Vermont

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  • Airport Park Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 1.50 miles
    Surface: Dirt, Gravel

    The Airport Park Trail on Malletts Bay near Colchester traverses through Airport Park, making a loop around ball fields, a playground, tennis courts and open fields. Woodlands and nearby wetlands make for great birding. At the southern tip of ...

  • Alburg Recreational Rail-Trail

    Rail-Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 3.50 miles
    Surface: Ballast, Cinder

    Nestled in the remote, lake-filled region of northwestern Vermontjust a few miles from the Canadian borderis the short and easy-to-overlook Alburg Recreational Rail-Trail. But you won't want to miss this 3.5-mile trail. It is a birder's paradise, ...

  • Allen Point Access Area Trail

    Rail-Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 1.25 miles
    Surface: Gravel

    The Allen Point Access Area Trail provides a scenic route for accessing Lake Champlain in South Hero. The flat trail occupies part of the former corridor of the Rutland Railroad Island Line. The line was built in 1900 and this segment was a ...

  • Arms Park Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 1.40 miles
    Surface: Dirt

    The Arms Park Trails are a network of woodland paths in the park behind Burlington High School and the surrounding properties of Rock Point School and Vermont's Episcopal Diocese offices. Some of the trails are hilly and the trail behind the ...

  • Battell Woods Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 5 miles
    Surface: Dirt, Gravel

    The Battell Woods Trail is a network of loops through the forest preserve, between US 7/SR 125 at the south end and Seminary Street Extension on the north end. The eastern-most segment of the trail forms part of the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM), ...

  • Beebe Spur

    Rail-Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 4.05 miles
    Surface: Gravel

    The Beebe Spur is a scenic 4-mile rail-trail running from northern Vermont's Newport towards the Canadian border. It follows Lake Memphremagog for most of the way, offering outstanding views of the water, as well as the Green Mountains. Although ...

  • Cross Vermont Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 30 miles
    Surface: Asphalt, Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel

    The Cross Vermont Trail (CVT) is a statewide route that links a number of Vermont trails and includes on-road sections. As of spring 2012, 30 miles of trail are built and scattered across the state. Each of these trails are listed below and ...

  • Delaware and Hudson Rail-Trail

    Rail-Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 23.50 miles
    Surface: Ballast, Gravel, Sand

    While hugging the New York state line, the Delaware & Hudson Rail-Trail quietly rambles over the rolling hills and farmland of western Vermont. The 22.3-mile D&H actually comprises two trails split in nearly equal sections, each providing quintessential ...

  • East Branch Trail (VT)

    Rail-Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 5.10 miles
    Surface: Gravel

    The East Branch Trail is a 5-mile ungroomed, backcountry pathway built on a former logging railroad bed in southern Vermont's Windham County. The remote, heavily wooded trail lies just north of the Searsburg Reservoir and Deerfield River in ...

  • Ethan Allen Park Trails

    State: VT
    Length: 4 miles
    Surface: Asphalt, Dirt

    Ethan Allen Park has more than 4 miles of woodland trails, making nested loops around the scenic park and offering views of the Green Mountains. The Adirondacks and Lake Champlain are visible from a lookout tower (opening times vary throughout ...

  • Intervale Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 2 miles
    Surface: Dirt

    The Intervale Trail in Burlington makes for a nice urban refuge from the city bustle. The trail traverses the bottomlands along the Winooski River through a farmland cooperative (the Intervale Center), which grows organic crops on 350 acres ...

  • Johnnie Brook Road Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 0.70 miles
    Surface: Gravel

    Though just under a mile, the Johnnie Brook Road Trail is an important link in the much-longer Cross Vermont Trail system, linking Richmond and Williston. To make that connection, you must use the unpaved segment of Johnnie Brook Road (at the ...

  • Means Woods Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 0.50 miles
    Surface: Dirt, Gravel

    The Means Woods Trail is a segment of the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) and runs between Seminary Street Extension into Means Woods and the Aurora School off Peterson Terrace, east of the downtown Middlebury. Heading south from Seminary Street ...

  • Missisquoi Valley Rail-Trail

    Rail-Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 26.10 miles
    Surface: Crushed Stone

    Winding northeast from St. Albans to Richford, just south of the Vermont–Québec border, the Missisquoi Valley Rail-Trail affords visitors direct access to northwest Vermont dairy country. In winter, hardy users take to the 26.1-mile route ...

  • Montpelier & Wells River Trail

    Rail-Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 21.80 miles
    Surface: Ballast, Dirt, Gravel, Sand

    The Montpelier & Wells River Trail occupies the former right-of-way of the old Montpelier & Wells River Railroad, which originally ran for 45 miles across northeast Vermont. Called the "Granite Train" for the materials it often carried from ...

  • Shelburne Bay Park Rec Path

    State: VT
    Length: 3.50 miles
    Surface: Gravel

    The main Shelburne Bay Rec Path runs for a little more than a mile between the parking lot on Bay Road and the Lake Champlain Yacht Club. Additional paths lead through the woods to the lake (Allen Hill and Clark Trail) but may not be accessible ...

  • South Barre Bike Path

    Rail-Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 1 miles
    Surface: Asphalt

    The South Barre Bike Path is a paved trail approximately 1 mile long, running from Bridge Street in south Barre to Fairview Street in Barre City. The path passes the Barre City Elementary and Middle School, which is the location of the only ...

  • Ti-Haul Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 1 miles
    Surface: Gravel

    The Ti-Haul Trail runs for 1 mile between Bay Road and Harbor Road, linking on the north end to the Shelburne Bay Park Rec Path. The path has an interesting history, beginning as a road specially built to move the old steamboat Ticonderoga from ...

  • West River Trail

    Rail-Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 16 miles
    Surface: Gravel, Sand

    Following the floodplain of the West River Valley, the 16-mile West River Trail (a.k.a. Railroad Bed Trail) appeals to a wide range of trail users. The rail-trail has a nearly level surface, ideal for walkers, cyclists and equestrians, while ...

  • Wright Park Trail

    State: VT
    Length: 3.80 miles
    Surface: Dirt

    Wright Park Trail forms a loop over nearly 4 miles (not all shown on the map) throughout the heavily wooded Wright Park. The White Circle Trail follows Otter Creek River, and along here you'll pass through a wetland and get scenic views of river ...