Honey Hollow Tenting Area was a tenting site in the Camel’s Hump region with tent platforms, an outhouse, and a communal fireplace.
It sat on a spur trail just 0.2 miles off the Long Trail at elevation 2450 feet, north of Gorham Lodge.
The site’s history was bound to routing challenges on the Long Trail.
Two designated tenting areas were established in the Camel’s Hump area: Hump Brook Tenting Area and Honey Hollow Tenting Area.
The trail was moved to Honey Hollow in 1987 because of trail closings over Robbins Mountain. This temporary arrangement remained until the Club made progress in its acquisition of a protected corridor where the Long Trail crossed the Winooski River.
Honey Hollow appeared on lists of tenting areas available for adoption by volunteers from 1991 through at least 1993.
The site was maintained as part of the Club’s Adopt-a-Shelter Program.
The tenting area’s existence proved short-lived.
After thirty-three years, in fall 1996, the Long Trail Patrol and volunteers coordinated by the Montpelier Section relocated the Long Trail in Honey Hollow to the Bamforth Ridge Trail. The relocation moved the Long Trail back to the original route built by Prof. Will Monroe in the early 1920s. To prepare the Bamforth Trail for its new designation as the Long Trail, the crews reconstructed and relocated parts of the trail. The old route of the Long Trail through Honey Hollow is closed and the Honey Hollow Tent Site has been eliminated.
Sources
- Long Trail News 1983 (1983). Green Mountain Club. 8.
- Long Trail News 1990 (1990). Green Mountain Club. 19.
- Long Trail News 1991 (1991). Green Mountain Club. 17.
- Long Trail News 1993 (1993). Green Mountain Club. 9.
- "Long Trail News." , no. Winter (1996).
- Trail Talk (Montpelier) 2007 (2007). Montpelier Section, Green Mountain Club. 5.
- Green Mountain Club. Long Trail Guide Book. 21 ed. Green Mountain Club, 1977. Pp. 64.
- Green Mountain Club. Long Trail Guide Book. 22 ed. Green Mountain Club, 1983. Pp. 61.
- Green Mountain Club. Long Trail Guide Book. 22 ed. Green Mountain Club, 1983. Pp. 57.
- Green Mountain Club. Long Trail Guide Book. 23 ed. Green Mountain Club, 1985. Pp. 65.
