Longest hiking trail in US seeks link to Vt.

WEYBRIDGE, Vt. (AP) — A hiking trail to connect Vermont’s Long Trail and the Appalachian Trail to a 4,600-mile path to North Dakota could be coming to a farm field about midway between Lake Champlain and the spine of the Green Mountains.

The North Country Trail National Scenic Trail is being extended from its current eastern endpoint in Crown Point, N.Y. The route it would take through Vermont to connect with the Long Trail hasn’t been chosen, but it’s expected to be about a 40-mile path through the farm fields of Addison County and into the mountains and most likely make the connection in the farms fields of Weybridge. And it will make use of at least a portion of the 16-mile Trail Around Middlebury.