Stratton Mountain is a mountain positioned in Windham County, Vermont, in the Green Mountain National Forest.
The mountain, a monadnock, is the highest point of Windham County, and of the southern Green Mountains generally.
Stratton Mountain stands inside the watershed of the Connecticut River, which drains into Long Island Sound in Connecticut.
The south and southeast slopes of Stratton Mountain drain into Ball Mountain Brook, thence into the West River, and into the Connecticut River.
The east side of Stratton drains via Kidder Brook into the North Branch of Ball Mountain Brook.
The north side of Stratton drains into the North Branch of Ball Mountain Brook.
Snow Ski Area and Somerset Reservoir from the Stratton Mountain Fire Tower - May 2014 Stratton Mountain claims a unique part in hiking trail history.
Taylor (1872 1949) was on the mountain when he conceived the idea of a trail from Massachusetts to Canada, which became Vermont's Long Trail. While on the summit of Stratton amid the assembly of the Long Trail, Benton Mac - Kaye (1879 1975) considered that it would be a good idea to have a trail spanning the entire Appalachian Range.
The result was the Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine. In southern Vermont, the two trails are coincident, crossing the summit of Stratton from south to north.
A short (.75-mile), mostly flat side trail leads from the summit to the Stratton Mountain Resort.
Stratton Mountain ski resort is positioned on the northeast slopes of the mountain.
Jake Burton assembled his first snowboard while residing in Manchester, near Stratton, which was the first primary ski resort to allow snowboarding.
In 2008 Stratton Mountain Snowboard School under the management of Steve Golby jubilated their twenty fifth anniversary. This was a huge mile-stone inside the snowboarding fraternity.
Stratton Mountain was home to and hosted 30th Anniversary of the US OPEN Snowboarding & Freestyle Skiing Championships in March 2012.
Stratton Mountain has its own fire department, the Stratton Mountain Volunteer Fire Company, but also receives mutual aid from the encircling fire departments.
The Stratton Mountain School is positioned in Stratton.
"NRHP nomination for Stratton Mountain Lookout Tower" (PDF).
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Landforms of Windham County, Vermont - Green Mountain National Forest - Mountains of Vermont - Mountains on the Appalachian Trail - New England Hundred Highest - Towers in Vermont - Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont - National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Vermont
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