It’s short, but the west cliff trail on Putney Mountain takes you through a hemlock grove.

Thank you, I haven't done that one!

Keep in mind it is still archery season. Muzzleloader December 3 - December 11, 2022. Dress accordingly.

Muzzleloader?

Gotta watch out for those Green Mountain Boys.

It's been a week...

I always enjoyed wandering around Little River State Park in the off season.

Not sure where you are, but near Burlington it has been stick season for a solid three weeks already. I feel this post a lot and wish I had good recommendations to add in!

Fairlee town forest/ Bald top has a lot of nice hemlock and pine groves.

I came here to say this. Putney Mountain.

Muzzleloader?

I hardly know her.

It's been over a month in Windham Co., but also only takes a couple days for seasonal depression to kick in.

Where in Vermont? Around Burlington:

Red rocks and east woods are very coniferous, albeit small. For a longer hike IIRC Stevenson Brook Trail in Little River SP has a lot of hemlocks and it’s just beautiful regardless as you hike along a brook the entire way.

Saxon hill is pretty much all red pines.

If you’re closer to Middlebury area the Silver Lake area east of Lake Dunmore is pretty coniferous and a lake is beautiful anytime of year.

And of course anywhere you go in VT is piney if you hike high enough 😈

Oh no! Not three whole weeks‽

I think that fact might be false, but I am not going to waste my time. Why live somewhere that is so depressing to you after just a few days of a season that lasts the majority of the year around here?

Anybody else call stick season "neighbor season?" Because now I see so many of their houses off in the distance through the sticks. Bleh.

Especially this year after all the pandemic homebuilding. There's a secluded dirt back road I like to ride in the summer and a couple years ago a long driveway was put in, leading from the road back into the woods. Pretty cool spot for a house. Well, with all the leaves gone now I can see the "one" driveway suddenly leads to like 6 new houses all next to each other. I hope the first buyer/builder knew what she/he was getting into.

muzzleloader?! You brought'er!

I'm in central Vermont but glad to travel, these are great, thank you so much!

In central Vermont most leaves are gone before the end of October. I'll be sure to let my depression know not to show up until you say it's been long enough.

Good advice, thank you

Not strenuous at all, but if you're looking for the green and good smells the trails around King Arthur Flour are nice.

Stowe Pinnacle to Hogback is nice in the winter

I love this post!

I walked the Old Mill Trail in Jericho this weekend, behind the Snowflake Bentley Museum. Easy and lots of greens!

I will reiterate. If "stick" season gets you depressed, why live here?

Fife and drums intensify.

One thing I love about skiing the northern vermont mountains is the pines. I recomend going up Molly Stark mt or one of the sugarbush mountains. The upper 1000 feet of vertical of beautiful pine and spruce trees. I love to ski Magic mountain, amazing terrain but one of the negatives is it does not really touch upon those forests because of its altitude(a little bit it does. Full respect to the terrain regardless) I have hiked the LT from Lincoln Gap to app gap and you def get a ton of those forests. But it is a major commitment. Check on those mountains for local hikes. On Molly Stark anything above the single chair midstation is amazing. On Sugarbush I recomend the upper castlerock area. For me riding up the single chair at Mad River Glen with a ton of snow and getting past the mid station it almost feels spiritual it is so beautiful. Weaving through those pines skiing takes it to another level but hiking I have no doubt you can find the same clarity.

Flatlander humor? There are less hunters out there during muzzleloader season. Hunters that hunt during muzzleloader season tend to be more serious about hunting.

https://www.besthuntingtimes.com/blog/2020/12/2/why-you-should-start-hunting-with-a-muzzleloader

Brighton State Park in IP and Moose Bog, Wenlock WMA in Ferdinand are two I walk a couple times a week. Stop at Silvio Conte HQs along 105 heading east towards NH. Great info inside the Welcome Center about the Nulhegan Basin.

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I love it here. I have seasonal depression that comes in waves. Are you gatekeeping depression and the state of Vermont?

Nope.

Moody Park in Claremont, NH.

I appreciate you all for these awesome suggestions, psyched to have all these locations to explore!

Around the falls of lana at Dunmore has great hemlock stands! Fun place to explore and scramble around the rocks a little.

Lyebrook wilderness is fun

yup. used to live down there right up against the reserve. Please consider bringing a garbage bag. i used to fill the bed of my truck multiple times oer year with all the garbage people refuse to pack out.

Me and my sister once picked an entire pick up bed of cans q couple of years ago. we returned them and used the money to ransome some fishing worms and put them in our garden.

Victory Bog. Mostly spruce, but way more potent smelling (in a good way) than Hemlock/Pine