Robert Frost Interpretive Trail
Public Land · Ripton, Vermont
A mile and a bit of flat path through woods and beaver meadow in the Green Mountain National Forest, two miles east of Ripton on the road that is named after him, with about half a dozen of his poems mounted on boards along it. The trick of the place is that the poems are set where the landscape matches them - the one about birches beside a stand of birch, the one about mowing at the edge of an open field - so that the words and the ground arrive together. Frost summered a few minutes away at the Homer Noble Farm for twenty-three years and walked these woods himself, and taught up the road at Bread Loaf until he died in 1963.
Vermont Route 125, Ripton, Vermont, 05766, United States
FREE and open at all hours - a US Forest Service interpretive trail in the Green Mountain National Forest with NO fee, NO permit and NO booking of any kind, and free parking on Route 125, two miles east of Ripton. The trail is 1.2 miles, FLAT with no elevation gain, crossing a beaver pond and the South Branch of the Middlebury River, with about half a dozen Frost poems mounted where the landscape matches them. ⚠ IT IS UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLE - a wide surfaced path with boardwalk, expanded under 2020 funding and connected with the Robert Frost Wayside - which makes it one of very few destinations in this folder a wheelchair user gets in full. ⚠ THAT ACCESSIBILITY IS SEASONAL IN PRACTICE: the surface is NOT cleared or treated in winter and becomes snow and ice, and boardwalk is slippery when wet or frosty. ⚠ BLACKFLIES FROM LATE MAY INTO JULY ARE SERIOUS here. Allow about an hour. ⚠ THIS IS NOT THE FROST HOUSE - the Robert Frost Stone House Museum is at Shaftsbury, 120 km south.
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