July 17 - 24, 2009 - Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont

	Vermont's Green Mountain Club hosts the 2009 Appalachian Trail Conservancy Biennial, a week of celebrating and learning about the 2,170-mile Appalachian Trail. Castleton State College is a small liberal arts college located off U.S. Route 4 west of Rutland. The campus overlooks a classic Vermont village of white clapboard houses and shady streets.
As America's oldest long-distance hiking trail, Vermont's Long Trail may well have inspired Benton MacKaye to dream of an Appalachian Trail (AT). The AT in southern Vermont follows the ridge of the Green Mountains for more than one hundred miles over Glastonbury, Stratton and Bromley Mountains and Killington Peak.