The Heart of the Greens Loop is the first completed multi-day segment of the Velomont Trail, a collaborative project of several Vermont organizations with the goal of connecting a series of single track trails and backcountry huts along the entire length of Vermont. This loop captures the Velomont vision and turns it into reality: connect rural communities to each other and to public open space via purpose-built single track trails.
For the purpose of the FKT, the route starts and finishes at the monument on the Rochester Village Green. To keep it a clean loop, the short out and back spur found on some maps which leads to the Chittenden Brook Campground is not considered a necessary part of the route.
More info can be found at the following websites:
https://vermonthuts.org/heart-of-the-greens/
https://www.ridgelineoutdoorcollective.org/heart-of-the-greens-loop/
Please note that the route is designed with cycling in mind, so take care to watch out for fast bikers on the trail.
