Burrows Trail is a 5.3 mile out and back trail located near Huntington, Vermont that features a great forest setting and is rated as difficult. The trail is primarily used for hiking, walking, running, and nature trips.
Started the hike at 4:50AM with headlamps. Trail is well packed down, except for a layer of fresh pow. Just before the top after the clearing was completely untraversed. Once we started up from the clearing there were 4.5ft snow drifts in the trail. We had to break through them to continue up. Summit was windy and cold and we only stayed for 7 minutes as there was zero visibility. Overall straight forward challenging hike that meanders in the beginning and then has a steep incline. Spikes are definitely recommended especially at the top. 2/21/21
First time hiking the burrows trail. We are 53 and 52 from Md. and in pretty good shape. From the parking lot be prepared for an ALL uphill walk to top, getting progressively harder at top. The map says 5.3 miles out and back. My strava had it at 7.4miles. I would imagine its alot harder with no snow on the ground. The trail was pretty well packed so microspikes were fine and definitely recommend. Towards the last 1/3 of climb you basically need to kick your toes into snow in order to not fall on your face. Its STEEP!! Views were great but bitter cold at top the day we went. Only stayed a few minutes. It took us 3 hrs to get to the top with lots of stops for photos. the scenery on the way up was other worldly. Will do this again.
Awesome hike today. Thanks to all the hikers and skiers who broke trail.
We had a very nice hike today on the Burrows Trail. Quite difficult hike at the top. Crampons worked very fine and had lots of fun!
Needed microspikes but the wind was not bad at the summit. Snow was pretty.
First time, 63 with a bad knee. (Hey, that rhymes!). We went up on the Friday of Columbus Day weekend. 4 cars in the lot at 8:30AM when we departed, about 50 when we got back. Stellar day. Wind at the summit was chilly from the west. The east side was pretty calm, great views, we ate and napped. Leaves were past peak, but the hike up, sun through leaves, 30-40 degrees, was beautiful. The second half of the ascent featured ice in the low areas between boulders, easy to avoid. However, the descent up there was treacherous. Water from many wet boots had created black ice on almost all the rocks, so we slid on our butts here and there until things loosened up. 2 Advil’s up, 1 down.
Nice trail, right up and then right back down. Very windy up top, perfect fall foliage views of NY, VT and NH,
absolutely amazing views! Slippery throughout and icy at the top. Highly highly recommend proper footwear if you don’t want to slip and fall and hurt yourself!