“The mountains are calling and I must go.” John Muir
IMPORTANT TRAIL UPDATES
Content from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department:
Update, April 10, 2023: Biologists and community scientists are just now identifying which cliffs are occupied by peregrines, and not all sites have been visited to-date. Currently, ten cliff areas are closed to protect nesting peregrine falcons. Peregrines are vulnerable to human disturbance on or above a nesting cliff and the cliffs are closed to improve the odds for successful nesting.
We close the portions of the cliffs where the birds are nesting and the trails leading to those cliff areas. These sites will remain closed until August 1 or until the department determines the risk to nesting falcons has passed. If nesting falcons choose new sites, additional sites may be added to the closed list:
Update, April 10, 2023: Biologists and community scientists are just now identifying which cliffs are occupied by peregrines, and not all sites have been visited to-date. Currently, ten cliff areas are closed to protect nesting peregrine falcons. Peregrines are vulnerable to human disturbance on or above a nesting cliff and the cliffs are closed to improve the odds for successful nesting.
We close the portions of the cliffs where the birds are nesting and the trails leading to those cliff areas. These sites will remain closed until August 1 or until the department determines the risk to nesting falcons has passed. If nesting falcons choose new sites, additional sites may be added to the closed list:
- Bolton Notch (Bolton) – UUW cliff – cliff access and climbing closed
- Bone Mountain (Bolton) - portions closed to climbing
- Deer Leap (Bristol) – cliff-top and climbing closed
- Eagle Ledge (Vershire) – closed to hiking and climbing
- Fairlee Palisades (Fairlee) – cliff-top closed
- Marshfield Mt (Marshfield) - portions closed to climbing
- Mt Horrid (Rochester) – Great Cliff overlook closed
- Nichols Ledge (Woodbury) – cliff-top and climbing closed
- Prospect Rock (Johnson) - overlook closed
- Red Rocks Park (S. Burlington) – southern cliff access closed