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Trail opens from Robert Frost Stone House Museum to Paran Creek

The Fund for North Bennington, Inc. and the Robert Frost Stone House Museum have jointly opened a walking trail from the museum, located on Route 7A in Shaftsbury, west to Paran Creek. An extension of the trail has been laid out to the swimming beach at Lake Paran, shown above in early November.

The Fund for North Bennington, Inc. hopes to be able to construct a small footbridge over Paran Creek in 2010 to connect the two segments of trail. The trail location can be seen in a map here. For walkers who park at the museum, please walk to the left of the barn by the parking lot, and then follow the lane between two stone walls toward the woods. Once you reach the woods, blue blazes mark the trail west to Paran Creek (about one mile.)

Most of the trail to Paran Creek is on land formerly owned by Robert Frost, and acquired by The Fund for North Bennington, Inc. thanks to a grant from The Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, and a "bargain sale"by the prior landowner.