Cross Vt Trail 101
Reference Information:

• The character of the trail.
• Signs; find the route.
• What is a Cue Sheet?
• Trail Etiquette.
• Road Rules.

Technical Help
Downloading Guidebook:

• What is Google Earth?
• What is PDF?
• What is Excel?
• What is flintknapping?

Where the heck is the Cross Vermont Trail?

It is a patchwork quilt being stitched together from many local paths. Maps, guide descriptions, and signs will help you find the open sections of trail, and highlight the best roads to connect them together and make longer trips.

Trail etiquette talks about things to keep in mind when travelling on shared use paths. Road rules gives advice on how to safely bike or walk on roads that connect together the paths.

For more background, read About Our Trail.

Maps can be viewed online or downloaded as PDF's to print at home.
There are twelve maps to cover the complete statewide route.

• Read an index of the twelve separate Cross Vermont Trail maps.
• Dowload all of the printable maps in one large file. (PDF 4MB)

Interactive Digital Maps can also be viewed online or downloaded.

• View the trail online in Google Maps.
• Download complete Google Earth file (KMZ 91KB) (Learn more about Google Earth).

Cue Sheets are brief, turn by turn directions. (Learn more about cue sheets here.) Shorter cue sheets accompany each printable map. The following links are to longer cue sheets, each showing the statewide route in a single document.

• easy to print East to West statewide cue sheet. (PDF 44KB)
• East to West statewide cue sheet as Excel spreadsheet. (EXCEL 56KB)
• easy to print West to East statewide cue sheet. (PDF 45KB)
• West to East statewide cue sheet as Excel spreadsheet. (EXCEL 58KB)

In depth description, including photos. Additional detail about parking areas and points of interest. Tips on how to navigate potentially confusing turns and intersections. Also links to other websites that relate to the Cross Vermont Trail. The description is complete, but we are always working to add to it, so let us know what you would like to see included!

• Read narrative description online.
• Download narrative description as Excel spreadsheet. (EXCEL 135KB)

"Mouth of the Winooski River" Loop. Visit a string of parks and trails along the Winooski River between Williston and Burlington. Leads to "mouth of the river" where the Winooski ends at shores of Lake Champlain.

"Wells River Village" Loop. Make a day trip out of scenic country roads around Village of Wells River.

Groton State Forest day trip brochure. (PDF 697KB; prints out on legal size paper.) Focuses on the Cross Vermont Trail in Groton State Forest. (Summarizes Maps 2 and 3 of the statewide route.)