Millstone Trails, near East Barre, Vermont, is a fabulous place to explore on mountain bike spring, summer, or fall. Last Thursday was a picture perfect fall day, sunny and temperatures in the 60s, that 6 of us enjoyed fully.
While waiting for the store to open so we could get trail passes I took a few photos around the town of Websterville where Millstone is headquartered.
It was pumpkin season for sure here in Vermont.
Finally we were off. Jean, who lives in the area and is on the Board of Millstone, plotted the route, mostly, but at times Mark pointed the way for a few of us to try some challenging trails. Here he points the way as we crossed an easy grassy field heading down to check out the lodge and campsite there. That is my shadow in the photo—I shot many photos while riding and trying not to hit a tree or a huge granite boulder. There were many huge chunks of granite around—one of the benefits of riding near quarries. Below is a particularly interesting trail. It is much steeper down than it looks in this photo.
Speaking of quarries, here are panoramic images of three of them. If you can CLICK on any of them and you will be taken to a page where you can zoom in and pan around to see a lot of detail. You can even zoom in and see Mount Mansfield in the top center along the farthest ridgeline above the small collection of white buildings of the first pan. But be sure to see the slide show that follows on this page.
Here is a slide show with two dozen photos from this unique spot.
