Carpenter Hill Road Photo by Lorianna Weathers Photography
POWNAL
The town of Pownal , in Vermont ’ s southwest corner , is tucked up against Massachusetts and New York on two sides .
The Green Mountain ridgetop is the beginning of the 273 miles of Vermont ’ s Long Trail , the oldest long hiking trail in the nation .
Pownal ’ s history is in the lime quarries and cotton mills .
Vermont State 7 slices through the geographic center of the town , but if you want to discover Pownal , get off the highway , head west on North Pownal Rd ., then ramble up and down Carpenter Hill Road .
The entire landscape of The Shires will open up before you as you pass through 300-acre Southern Vermont Orchards , once part of the largest privately owned orchard in the world .
In 1970 Hillary Clinton often weekended at a farm cabin in Pownal with her boyfriend while she was a law student at Yale ( the weekends ended when she met a new guy named Bill ).
COME EXPLORETHESHIRES . COM 24 FOR INFO CALL 802.447.2456