Since its founding in 1995, the Conservation Corps has worked on miles of trails throughout northern Vermont and New Hampshire. In this time, the Corps has consistently outdone itself in quality and workmanship – completing an impressive variety of trail building and maintenance projects.
These projects range from routine maintenance and brushing in Willoughby State Forest to the planning and development of the 20 mile Kingdom Heritage Trail in northern Vermont. Our work has included installing steps, drainages, ladders, water-bars, bridges, signs, interpretive sites, and many more features.
Spotlight on Trails: The Bluff Mountain Community Trail
Located in the Village of Island Pond, the Bluff Mountain Community Trail is one of the Kingdom Corps’ early banner trail building projects. Since 1998, the Kingdom Corps has worked to restore, expand and maintain this popular local trail with an impressive variety of rock steps, ladders, and switchbacks. Through many years of work with our youth crews, and in partnership with the State of Vermont and Green Mountain Club, the Kingdom Heritage Trail system was completed and opened in 2019, connecting the historical Bluff Mountain Community Trail to Bluff Ridge Trail, Middle Mountain, Unknown Pond, and Gore Mountain, forming a 20-mile remote hiking trail system.
Past Trail Projects
Vermont
- Kingdom Heritage Trail – Brighton, Warren’s Gore, Avery’s Gore,
- Burke Mountain Summit ADA Trails- Burke
- Moose Bog Boardwalk & ADA Trails – Ferdinand
- Gore Mountain Cabin Rebuild – Avery’s Gore
- Sentinal Rock State Park ADA Trails – Westmore
- Bluff Mountain Ridge Trail – Brighton
- Bald Mountain Cabin Rebuild – Westmore
- Cohos Trail – Pittsburg, NH
- Middle Mountain Trail – Warren’s Gore & Avery’s Gore
- Cow Mountain Pond – Granby
- Wheeler Mountain Trail – Sutton
- Westmore Town Forest – Westmore
- Gore Mountain Trail – Avery’s Gore
- NorthWoods Trails – Charleston
- Brick Kingdom Trail – Barton
- Vermont’s Long Trail – Belvidere
- Lyman Falls Trails – Bloomfield
- Bluff Mountain & Lookout Mountain Trails – Brighton
- Kingdom Trails – East Burke
- Notch Pond Trails – Ferdinand
- Moose & Loon Trails – Maidstone
- Boltonville Nature & Cross Vermont Trails – Newbury
- Brousseau Mountain Trail – Norton
- Willoughby Falls Trails – Orleans
- Devil’s Hill Ski Trails – Peacham
- Wheeler Pond Trails – Sutton
- Victory Basin Railroad & Umpire Trails – Victory
- South Beach, Bald Mountain, Mt. Hor, Mt. Pisgah Trails – Westmore
- Various Locations – Northern Forest Canoe Trail
New Hampshire
- Cohos Trail – Dixville
- The Canyon at Indian Stream – Pittsburg
- Cherry Pond Trail – Whitefield