Ethan Allen IN Homestead TER VA LE T R BELTLINE PATH BELTLINE A I L North 127 ROUTE / I Beach N T E R NORTH AVE. V A The Intervale L E R O A Bonus Tracks D Burlington Burlington CollegeCollege Directions ISLAND LINE TRAIL M A NH . ATTA D R PARK STREET PARK N Southern Sojourn A Working-Class City RIVERSIDE LAKE CHAMPLAIN AVE. Turn left onto the Main Street shared-use sidewalk Turn left on South Willard Street. ARCHIBALD ST. NORTH STREETINTERVALE AVE. in front of Pomeroy Hall on the south side of Main ST. WILLARD N. BATTERY STRE BATTERY ELMWOOD AVE. ELMWOOD N. PROSPECT ST. PROSPECT N. Street. Turn right down Howard Street. AVE. WINOOSKI N. N. UNION STREET UNION N. Waterfront Park Turn right just after University Terrace onto the Turn right onto Pine Street. PEARL STREET Burlington Boathouse shared-use path beside Nolin House, heading south STREET PAUL ST. CHURCH STREET CHURCH ET into UVM’s Restone Campus. Turn left on Maple Street to meet Local Motion/ Union Station ST. WILLARD S. up with the main route. VE. COLLEGE STREET R A At water towers, cross University Heights MAIN STREET COLCHESTE and head south along back of Patrick Gym and KING STREET Map University Gutterson Fieldhouse. STREET SUMMIT MAPLE STREET AVE. EAST Streets K of Vermont S. WINOOSKI AVE. WINOOSKI S. Cycle the City Loop STREET UNION S. Here you meet up with the South Burlington U N N I VE J L R S I T MAIN STREET Southern Sojourn Route O Y Recreation Path. Head south along path, which TE ST. PAUL STREET R R Champlain . SPRUCE STREET M veers west after a mile or two. A Working-Class City Route TRAIL LINE ISLAND College Park N B Exit recreation path at Farrell Street and continue College/University HOWARD STREET PINE STREET PINE west by following the shared-use path on the south Bike Shop ST. PROSPECT S. side or ride on road. You will pass a shopping center I ST. WILLARD S. C on your left. A LAKESIDELAKESIDE AVE.AVE. EAST TERRACE EAST Go straight through traffi c light at Shelburne Road onto Home Avenue, which becomes Austin Drive H STREET SPEAR (follow the Cross Vermont Trail signs). D Turn right into Oakledge Park, which is the Burlington Oakledge FLYNN AVE. southern limit of the Island Line Trail. Park STREET SHELBURNE Country Club Head north on the bike path until you meet up G E with the Cycle the City route at the bottom of E Maple Street. A 9 AUST S IN T DR W IV I-8 E O O D INDUSTRIAL PKWY. INDUSTRIAL HOME AVE. D R . PINE STREET PINE FA RR F E L L S T . OUTH B S URLINGTO N REC. PATH I-189 Pine Street Barge Canal, 1960. Courtesy of Burlington Parks and Recreation Department. A headquarters of Burton SnowboardsF is now an innovation center for like-minded a worthwhile two-minute side trip on small businesses. Industrial Avenue. At this point, you meet the Lake Champlain Bikeways route and You will cross a bridge spanning the Pine Bonus Track the Cross Vermont Trail (a cycle route that Street Barge CanalJ where, in the 1860s, originates along the Connecticut River in entrepreneur Lawrence Barnes saw that Southern Sojourn - 6.2 Miles the village of Wells River, VT, and ends at more lakefront access was needed to load Oakledge Park), which have signs leading and unload boats at the increasingly busy you to Oakledge Park. industrial port. With the help of 40 men, A Loop Around the Southern Portion of the City Barnes transformed his swamp, described Oakledge ParkG was purchased by the city as a “miasmic frog pond,” into a wood- If you want to add an extra 6.2 miles to your into the heart of the Redstone Campus, which in 1970. It sits on the former site of the last of fl anked canal complete with a single-track ride around Burlington, you can head south boasts a number of historic buildings that are the Webb family farm barns and Oakledge drawbridge. The city’s booming lumber toward the University of Vermont’s Redstone well worth the 5- to 10-minute side trip. Manor, which were razed prior to the park’s industry ended in late 1890s, when lumber Campus and onto the South Burlington construction. The Webb family lived at companies around the canal were gradu- Recreation Path, meeting the southern end of Take a left here and cross University Oakledge between 1883 and 1926, when ally replaced with other businesses, like the Island Line Trail on the Waterfront Bike Terrace toward the Patrick Gymnasium and the property was sold to Oakledge Manor coal dealers. A manufactured gas plant Path at Oakledge Park before heading north to Gutterson Field HouseC .Head south along Resort, which became the Cliff side Country opened near the canal in 1895, converting Local Motion. the back of the Patrick Gym until you meet Club in 1961. The manor was burned to the oil and coal into gas for streetlights and the South Burlington Recreation Path, which ground in 1971 as a training exercise for heating. Toxic wastes from this process After crossing Main Street opposite UVM’s wraps around the UVM playing fi elds. the Burlington Fire Department. The fi rst were disposed of in the wetlands around Morrill Hall and Pomeroy Hall, head east up handicapped-accessible tree house in the the canal, contaminating the area. In 1983, the hill on Main Street on the shared-use side- Following the South Burlington Recreation country to be constructed in a public park the canal was designated a Superfund site walk, past University Terrace, and turn right Path south, you will have the Burlington is located in Oakledge Park. The tree house by the U.S. Environmental Protection to go south just after Nolin House. Follow this Country ClubD on your right and UVM’s is located at the southern end of the park Agency. After many years of study and path toward the Redstone CampusA . You Miller Research FarmE on your left. The near the large picnic shelter and is available extensive public input, a cleanup plan was will pass the newer University Heights student path veers right and follows Interstate 189 for use year-round. Take time to read the devised and the site was restored housing on your left before reaching two water through woods and over streams while many wayside exhibits detailing Oakledge’s as a wetland in 2003. towersB —a historic brick water tower built descending to Farrell Street. Head west amazing history. between 1881 and 1890, and the iconic blue and cross straight over Shelburne Road at On your right, just before getting to Local High Service Water Tower built in 1935. If you the traffi c light onto Home Avenue. `As you Heading north, you will skirt the lake’s Motion, you will pass the Vermont Rail continue following this path, it will take you continue west on Home Avenue, the world edge all the way to downtown Burlington, System yards , which have been in uninter- passing Blanchard BeachH , a popular rupted use, in some form, since the 19th public swimming beach, on the way. After century. Note the former switching yard passing through the Lakeside neighborhood and roundhouse of the Rutland Railroad on on public streets, you will turn left onto the your right, now used by Vermont Railway. bike path and see a large brick building over Round House Point ParkK is a great place the railroad tracks on your rightI . Built in to relax and have a snack while looking the late 1800s, the Queen City Cotton Mill, over Lake Champlain at the Adirondack whose workers lived in the housing you just Mountains in the distance. If you get a passed, was occupied during World War II whiff of the sewage-treatment plant beside by Bell Aircraft for the manufacture of gun Roundhouse Point, think back to 1953 turrets for bombers. Test fi rings were done when Burlington contained no sewage- from the second fl oor window area out over treatment facilities and two trunk lines the lake. In 1948 GE moved into the building discharged about 75 percent of the entire to develop the 20mm Vulcan gun used on sewage fl ow into Lake Champlain behind almost all U.S. jet fi ghters. The building is you. Thankfully, times have changed. Oakledge Manor, 1885. Courtesy of Shelburne Farms Archives. B Bonus Track A Working-Class City - 1.4 Miles Historic Working-Class Neighborhoods and Industrial Zone This route takes you on a 1.4-mile loop working-class. At the bottom, you’ll fi nd through historical working-class neighbor- yourself on Pine Street, where Burlington hoods and an industrial zone. Champlain earned its reputation as a major center of College’s Hill and Lyman hallsL (at 227 and commerce during the 19th and early 20th 237 South Willard respectively) were built in centuries. the Queen Anne-style for brothers John and Austin Dunham, successful lumber barons. During the early 1800s, Burlington became The form of each house is essentially the the nation’s foremost port for importing same, but diff erent details—such as the third Canadian lumber. The city really began fl oor porches—give each building its own booming after the Champlain Canal was built personality. How many of these diff erences in 1823, connecting the lake to the Hudson can you spot? River and lucrative ports south. When the fi rst steam train engine chugged into town in The Italianate-style homeM at 251 South 1849, the railroad completed a transportation Willard (originally named the Edward Phelps system that could fl oat raw lumber down House, then the Cannon house, and now Perry from Canada on steam-powered boats, and Hall) was built in 1859 for Edward Phelps, then load it here on trains bound for Albany, a lawyer who served as U.S.