Anyone here from Vermont?
I came across this article about old roads in Vermont being closed and just wondered about a local perspective.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/where-the-roads-have-no-name
I'm not from Vermont but it was an interesting read. Thanks for posting. B-)
Seb, post: 371787, member: 7509 wrote: Anyone here from Vermont?
I came across this article about old roads in Vermont being closed and just wondered about a local perspective.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/where-the-roads-have-no-name
I've mountain biked many similar ancient roads, including many not too far from the subject road in Granville. Many are no longer passable except on foot, but some are maintained for snowmobile and mountain bike passage; some even by off road four wheelers. It's always important to know (if you happen to want to travel one of these "roads", that just because they're shown on a USGS topo map made in the 50's, doesn't mean there's anything that looks, smells, or feels like a road there any more.
When homeowners discover one on or near their property that they'd either like to take over themselves or just stop public traffic from using them, they may petition the town they live in to "throw up" the road. Not sure about what legalities follow (whether the town files a quit claim or whatever), but it does happen from time to time.
More often than not, though, it goes the other way. Not 2 miles from where I live there's such a road that the owners gated, so that folks wouldn't pass by their house (they were using the first 200' of said "road" as their driveway. Town made them take the gate down. Public access forever on the ancient road.