The Green Mountain National Forest strives to make our facilities, programs, and services accessible to all people. All of our administrative offices are located in accessible facilities. The Forest continually upgrades facilities to incorporate universal design to ensure the integration of all people, to the greatest extent possible, without separate or segregated access for people with disabilities. This means everyone benefits – from people with disabilities, families with young children, and older people.

Please pay attention to the weather and please come prepared. Weather can play a role in making a normally accessible site inaccessible on a temporary basis as tree branches may fall across a trail or heavy rains may wash out gravel surfacing.

Campgrounds with Accessible Facilities
Facilities include accessible vault or flush toilets (Hapgood Pond only), accessible showers (Hapgood Pond only) and some accessible site furnishings (fire rings and picnic tables). Campsites, pathways and roads have compacted gravel or soil surface.

North

• Moosalamoo Campground
• Chittenden Brook Campground

South

• Hapgood Pond Recreation Area
• Grout Pond Recreation Area (canoe camping opportunity with assistance)

Picnic Areas and Overlooks with Some Accessible Facilities
(Facilities have accessible parking and may have accessible picnic tables and accessible vault toilets. Please call for more information.)

North

• Robert Frost Wayside
• Voter Brook Overlook
• Blueberry Management Area (accessible path from parking area to upper location with scenic view – may need assistance.)
• Texas Falls Picnic Area (Texas Falls Observation Site is not accessible)
• White River Travelway Sites

South

• White Rocks Day Use Area
• Big Branch Day Use Area
• Silver Bridge at FR 10
• Grout Pond Recreation Area
• Hapgood Pond Recreation Area

Trails with Accessible Surfacing and Grades less than 8%

• Robert Frost Interpretive Trail (bus service is available to and from Middlebury on the Snow Bowl Shuttle) – link to bus service http://www.actrvt.org/bus_schedules/snow_bowl.php
• AT/LT at Thundering Falls

Alpine Skiing (Downhill) These facilities, which operate on the Green Mountain National Forest under special use contracts, offer adaptive programs which promote independence and further equality through access and instruction to alpine skiing.

• Sugarbush
• Mount Snow

For year round programs and activities throughout Vermont that serve individuals with a variety of special needs including physical, cognitive, and developmental disabilities contact Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports.  http://www.vermontadaptive.org/  

Passes

People with disabilities may qualify for a free Interagency Access Pass which allows discounts on camping as well as free entrance into many National Parks and Recreation Areas

Seniors over 62 qualify for a Interagency Senior Pass (Formerly a Golden Access Passport)

 

If you have special needs and would like to learn more about accessibility on the Green Mountain National Forest or have suggestions for improvements, please contact the Green Mountain National Forest Supervisor’s Office at (802) 747-6700 or dial 711 (www.vermontrelay.com) for the Vermont Relay Service (for people with speech or hearing disabilities).

(Recreation Opportunity Guides) can be made available in large print. Please call ahead so we may have copies prepared.