Green Mountain National Forest 📍

Green Mountain National Forest is a national forest located in Vermont, a forest area typical of the New England/Acadian forests ecoregion. The forest supports a variety of wildlife, including beaver, moose, coyote, black bear, and white tailed deer. It also supports an abundant variety of bird species, such as wild turkey and ruffed grouse. The forest, being situated in Vermont’s Green Mountains, has been referred to as the ‘granite backbone’ of the state.

The forest was established in 1932, as a result of uncontrolled overlogging, fire and flooding.[3] It consists of 399,151 acres (1,615.31 km2); and is the biggest contiguous land mass in the state. If Finger Lakes National Forest, which is managed as a unit of the Green Mountain National Forest, is included within it, GMNF is one of only two national forest northeast of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey barrier; the other being the White Mountain National Forest. Split into the southwest and central areas, GMNF has a total of eight wilderness areas. These were designated by Congress beginning with the Wilderness Act of 1964 to be areas off limits to mechanized gear down to and including bicycles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mountain_National_Forest
http://www.fs.usda.gov/greenmountain

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Sunset

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While no night up camping was perfect, Sunday evening was one of the nicest nights while the sun set, and the black flies retired for the night.

Sunday May 26, 2019 — Branch Pond
Map: Rondaxe Fire Tower Trail
SVGZ Graphic: Earthquakes in NY State
Map: Grass River - Tooley Pond Area

Nice campfire

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Cool evening but the campfire certainly helped. 

Friday September 4, 2020 — Green Mountain National Forest — Bald Mountain in Bennington 🗺 — Beebe Pond 🗺 — Big Branch Hollow 🗺 — Bourne Pond Trail 🗺 — Branch Pond 🗺 — Cooley Glen Trail 🗺 — Equinox Mountain 🗺 — George Aiken Wilderness 🗺 — Green Mnt NF Forest Road 74 Camping 🗺 — Green Mountain National Forest North 🗺 — Green Mountain National Forest South 🗺 — Grout Pond 🗺 — Headwaters Of The White River 🗺 — Lye Brook Trail From Bourne To Stratton Pond 🗺 — Old Job Camping 🗺 — Prospect Mountain Road Campsites 🗺 — Shep Meadows 🗺 — Somerset Airfield Camping 🗺 — Stratton Mountain 🗺 — White Rocks Trail 🗺 — Yaw Pond Loop 🗺— PDF with All Maps 📚
Map: Watts Wildlife Management Area

Stopped down at the Deerfield River

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It's really pretty quiet and doesn't have a lot of water but it still was a quiet place in the woods. 

Saturday September 5, 2020 — Green Mountain National Forest — Bald Mountain in Bennington 🗺 — Beebe Pond 🗺 — Big Branch Hollow 🗺 — Bourne Pond Trail 🗺 — Branch Pond 🗺 — Cooley Glen Trail 🗺 — Equinox Mountain 🗺 — George Aiken Wilderness 🗺 — Green Mnt NF Forest Road 74 Camping 🗺 — Green Mountain National Forest North 🗺 — Green Mountain National Forest South 🗺 — Grout Pond 🗺 — Headwaters Of The White River 🗺 — Lye Brook Trail From Bourne To Stratton Pond 🗺 — Old Job Camping 🗺 — Prospect Mountain Road Campsites 🗺 — Shep Meadows 🗺 — Somerset Airfield Camping 🗺 — Stratton Mountain 🗺 — White Rocks Trail 🗺 — Yaw Pond Loop 🗺— PDF with All Maps 📚
Map: Hudson River Special Management Area