"Five thousand years ago, the trail that Vermonters now call a 'footpath in the wilderness,' cut through mountian woods along a stream in southern Vermont. The native people who hiked this path were not seeking a wilderness experience. They were walking to work," writes Sally Pollack in the Burlington Free Press July 29, 1996.
"The landscape is a continuum of use and then we put the Long Trail in and say it's a footpath in the wilderness," says US Forest Service archaeologist David Lacy. "It's a footpath through regrowth. It's just an absolute storm of change if you look at it over a any period of time."
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