Kelly Stand Road

Kelly Stand Road is a road located near East Arlington, Vermont in the Green Mountain National Forest (GMNF) joining the towns of Stratton, Vermont and Arlington, Vermont. The portion of the road near Pike Hallow, and closest to Vermont Route 100, is paved and is generally known as Stratton-Arlington Road. The portion of the road that starts from approximately Grout Pond and continues through the GMNF is dirt, and has limited access during the winter months.

Kelly Stand Road is notable as the site of US Senator Daniel Webster's famous Kelly Stand speech. A memorial marker marks the spot where the speech was made during the 1840s. The road is also notable as being the location near where Benton MacKaye first conceived of his idea of a hiking trail that ran along the Appalachian Mountain range of the Eastern US.

Appalachian Trail (AT) / Long Trail (LT)

The Appalachian Trail, and likewise the Long Trail, which share the same path in the southern Green Mountains of Vermont, cross Kelly Stand Road before the trail crosses over the summit of Stratton Mountain, which lies to the north of the road. Overnight AT/LT trailhead parking is available on the road, which also serves as an access point for other nearby trails.

Northbound from Kelly Stand Road the next AT/LT shelter is the Stratton Pond shelter at AT mile point 1625, and to the south lies the Story Spring AT/LT shelter at mile point 1615.

External links

* [http://www.thisisvermont.com/storyarlistory.html Arlington, Vermont]
* [http://www.appalachiantrail.org/site/c.jkLXJ8MQKtH/b.786749/k.D5F9/History.htm History of the Appalachian Trail]
* [http://www.cs.utk.edu/~dunigan/at/ Appalachian Trail Shelters]