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Green Mountain Club

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The Green Mountain Club (GMC) primarily cares for the Long Trail. Additionally, GMC's advocacy and education efforts also safeguard Vermont's many other hiking trails. GMC volunteers and staff teach low-impact practices and safety skills that outdoor enthusiasts use whenever they hit the backwoods. Through its land protection program in northern Vermont, the Club has protected more than fifty-five miles of the Long Trail System and 16,000 acres of backcountry land.

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The Green Mountain Club’s New Visitor Center: A beautiful timber-frame building made of local wood, featuring wood heat, excellent energy efficiency, a walking trail out the back door and exhibits about the Long Trail.

Things to do on your next visit:

• Ask friendly and knowledgeable staff questions about hiking and get up-to-date trail
information in the Marvin B. Gameroff Hiker Center
• Check out an expanded line of maps, hiking books and GMC gear and apparel
• Take in gorgeous views of the Green Mountains
• Enjoy a cup of coffee (by donation; compliments of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters)
• Participate in GMC educational programs
• Join a community of volunteers who take care of Vermont’s hiking trails

Expanded Line of Vermont Hiking Guides and Hiking Gear Now Available 

Over the past five years, GMC has expanded its line of Vermont hiking publications to include five hiking guidebooks, three waterproof maps and two books on Long Trail history. A new line of hiking gear is available in the store including t-shirts, fleece, hats and water bottles.

Directions:

Green Mountain Club Headquarters
4711 Waterbury-Stowe Rd.
Waterbury Center, VT 05677
Phone: (802) 244-7037

Google Map

From Interstate 89, take Exit 10 (Waterbury/Stowe) and travel north towards Stowe on Route 100 for approximately four miles. A mile beyond the Cold Hollow Cider Mill, turn LEFT onto Cabin Lane (at the Evergreen Gardens sign). After 1/10 mile, bear right into the GMC parking lot.

If traveling south on Route 100 from Stowe, GMC is on the west (right) side of Route 100. Go approximately 1/8 of a mile past the GMC headquarters sign and turn right onto Cabin Lane (at the Evergreen Gardens sign). Bear right on the unpaved Cabin Lane, bearing right immediately into the GMC parking lot.

Summer Hours:
Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm
Saturdays and Sundays, 8am to 4pm

Architecture: A Green Building

The energy efficient design of the new building features local sustainably-harvested wood (secured through Vermont Family Forests), energy-efficient lighting and natural daylighting, biomass gasification heating, solar energy from photovoltaics, composting toilets and superb insulation. The Visitor Center’s exhibits will include a self-guided “Green Technology Tour.”

A Community Effort

The list of people who contributed to the construction effort of GMC’s new Visitor Center is long. It begins with Jeff Schoellkopf, long-time chair of GMC’s Headquarters Planning Committee, who served as architect of record during construction. J.A. Morrissey was the general contractor; Doug White was Project Manager and Steve Elder was Superintendent. VHCB administered a federal HUD grant secured by Senator Patrick Leahy for the project. Pete Antos-Ketcham was GMC’s Facilities Manager during the construction. Erik and Laurel Tobiason were the lead timber-framing volunteers. Dozens of volunteers pitched in to help with timber-framing and barn-raising. John Connell led the Education Committee, which was responsible for the displays, expertly crafted by Sarah and Ted Montgomery and Dave Blumenthal. More than 700 people and local businesses contributed to the capital campaign which raised most of the funds necessary for the construction.