The Glastenbury Stream Teepee was a canvas tepee shelter listed among facilities available on the Bennington Section of the Long Trail in 1917. Located at Sucker Pond, it contained only a stove, unlike the more fully equipped camps at other locations along the trail. The teepee was accessible via an optional route from the GMC camp at Hell Hollow that followed Glastenbury stream over good trail for about 1½ miles.
The shelter appeared in the first edition of the Long Trail Guide Book but left little trace in subsequent documentation. It was listed in the guide’s shelter inventory but notably was not located on any map, suggesting it may have been a relatively modest or informal facility. Despite its early disappearance from official records, the Glastenbury Stream Teepee endured on the landscape. The shelter remains standing to the present day, making it one of the Long Trail system’s longest-surviving structures from the trail’s foundational era.
Sources
- Green Mouintain Club. Long Trail Guide Book. 1 ed. Green Mountain Club, 1917. Pp. 10.
- Woodward, Paul & Joanne. Long Trail System Shelter History. 2nd ed. Green Mountain Club, 1999. Pp. 43.
