BMW Motorcycle Owners of Vermont

Finisher’s Pins are available for finding all these Large Trees.

1. APPLE, located in Chittenden near the dooryard at Lathrop's Furnace Brook Morgan Horse Farm.
2. GREEN ASH, located in West Castleton on Cedar Mountain Road 37 feet east of utility pole 118.
3. YELLOW BIRCH, located in Victory on the north slope of Mitchell's Hill up from an old railroad grade. You read the grade from a snowmobile bridge. One mile north of Victory School.
4. OHIO BUCKEYE, located in Hinesburg in the front yard of a house on the west side of Oak Hill Road south of the fishing access area on Lake Iroquois.
5. AMERICAN CHESTNUT, located in Ely on a dirt road. Take interstate 91 to Route 5. Take route 442 northeast along the dirt road about 9.5 miles up a steep drive. Look for a stonewall.
6. KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE, located in Rutland at 23 Washington Street. DOUGLAS FIR, located at the University of Vermont in Burlington southwest of the pedestrian underpass.
7. WHITE FIR, located in Burlington at Mater Christi School at 100 Mansfield Avenue opposite and north of Ira Allen Chapel and Colchester Avenue. Best to park at UVM and walk. Call ahead please.
8. HACKBERRY, again located in Burlington on the east side of Pine Street near Main Street.
9. BURR OAK, located in New Haven along roadside of Lime Kiln Road. Go about 1 mile north of junction of routes 7 and 17 on route 7. Travel about 1.5 miles on Lime Kiln Road, located on north side of road.
10. AUSTRIAN PINE, located in Manchester south of the center set back of route 7 south of Orvis.
11. RED PINE, located in Fair Haven north of Pine Street and east of Fair Haven Union High School off of Fourth Street.
12. PITCH PINE, located in Essex Junction in back of the district office of the Department of Forests and Parks Recreation at 111 West Street.
13. WHITE POPLAR, located in Castleton south of route 4A on the east side of the green in the Village.
14. SASSAFRAS, located in Vernon on Huckle Hill Road. It's behind a barn in a pasture. Close the gate please.
15. SYCAMORE, located in Benson on the west side of State Road, 0.2 miles north of the Benson General Store.
16. SHAGBARK HICKORY, located in Ira, visible from route 4 and found above and west of the only rest area west of West Rutland.
17. HONEY LOCUST, located in Weybridge Hill on the lawn of a brick house south of Silas Wright Monument across from Monument Hill Dairy.
18. HORSE CHESTNUT, located in Old Bennington at the First Congregational Church Parsonage.
19. EUROPEAN LARCH, located in Northfield on Mill Hill Road near route 64.
20. BLACK LOCUST, located in Randolph Center on the south side of a drive across from Vermont Technical College.
21. BLACK MAPLE, located on South Street in Castleton, 0.1 mile from Main Street near southwest corner of the white house. Looks like sugar maple.
22. NORWAY MAPLE, located in Pittsford and visible from route 7 at the Telemark Ski Club.
23. RED MAPLE, located at 8 Pine Street in Fair Haven south of Red Pine.
24. SILVER MAPLE, located in Brattleboro on the east side of route 5, 0.2 miles south of the junction of routes 5 and 9.
25. SUGAR MAPLE, located in Dorset on Fawcesett's property on Nichols Hill Road. Due care and permission are appropriate.
26. LINDEN, located in Woodstock at 25 Linden Street.
27. EASTERN WHITE PINE of note are found in Hancock, Florence, Ripton, South Wallingford, Arlington, and Newfane.
28. The Hancock White Pine is next to route 125, about a mile west of the Texas Falls Road. The Florence White Pine is visible from the Whipple Hollow Road one mile from the West Rutland line. The Ripton / Middlebury Gorge White Pine is 200 feet down a slope from the parking area west of the shady turn west of Ripton Villiage. The South Wallingford White Pine is on the west side of route 7 near a brick house. The Arlington White Pine is in the Fisher-Scott State Natural Area on Red Mountain Road up from route 7. The Newfane White Pine is northeast of the village near Cross and West Street.

Mountain Top "Get Done" rides

The ride sheet for the Mountain Top "Get Done" pin is located here. Print it out and "climb every mountain..."!

Covered Bridges

Here is what I believe to be a complete listing of Vermont Covered Bridges. At least two of them have blown down—one on Rt 44 in Brownsville, and one on Rt 11 between Springfield and Chester. I’ve put the list on alphabetical order by town. Some bridges are private, some in gardens, some in fields. Many can’t be ridden over. Some have been rebuilt. This list is about three years old but still reasonably accurate. Meantime all or most public bridges appear on the Vermont State Maps.

• West Arlington Bridge Arlington
• Robbins Nest Bridge Barre Town
• Morgan Bridge Belvidere
• Silk Bridge Bennington
• Paper Mill Village Bridge Bennington
• Henry Bridge Bennington
• Sanderson Bridge Brandon
• Creamery Bridge Brattleboro
• Best Bridge Brownsville
• Twigg-Smith Bridge Brownsville
• A.M. Foster Bridge Cabot Plains
• Gates Farm Bridge Cambridge
• Poland Bridge Cambridge Junction
• Quinlan Bridge Charlotte
• Moxley Bridge Chelsea
• Orne Bridge Coventry/Irasburg Greenbanks
• Hollow Brdge Danville
• West Dumerston Bridge Dummerston
• Gifford Bridge E Randolph
• Braley Bridge E Randolph
• Kingsley Bridge East Clarendon
• Scribner Bridge East Johnson
• Coburn Bridge E Montpelier
• Hopkins Bridge Enosburg
• Maple Street Bridge Fairfax Village
• E Fairfield Bridge Fairfield
• Spade Farm Bridge Ferrisburgh
• Kidder Hill Bridge Grafton
• Cheese Company Bridge Grafton
• Green River Bridge Guilford
• Fisher Bridge Hardwick
• private on Rt 14 Hardwick
• Martinsville Bridge Hartland
• Lord's Creek Bridge Irasburg
• Scott Bridge Jeffersonville
• At Riding Stables Jeffersonville
• Power Hse Brdge Remains Johnson
• Columbia Bridge Lemington
• Mount Orne Bridge Lunenburg
• School House Bridge Lyndon
• Chamberlin Mill Bridge Lyndon
• Millers Run Bridge Lyndon 
• Center Sanborn Bridge Lyndonville
• Randall Bridge Lyndonville
• Martin Bridge Marshfield
• Halpin Bridge Middlebury
• Pulp Mill Bridge Middlebury
• Fuller Bridge Montgomery
• Longley Bridge Montgomery
• Comstock Bridge Montgomery
• Private Montgomery
• Creamery Bridge Montgomery
• Gibou Rd Bridge Montgomery
• Hutchins Bridge Montgomery Center
• Red Bridge Morristown
• Willard Bridge N Hartland
• New N Hartland Bridge N Hartland
• Sequin Bridge North Ferrisburgh
• Williamsville Bridge Newfane
• Larkin Bridge North Tunbridge
• Flint Bridge North Tunbridge
• Chamberlain Bridge Northfield
• Moseley Bridge Northfield Center
• Station Bridge Northfield Falls
• Second Bridge Northfield Falls
• Slaughter House Bridge Northfield Falls
• Third Bridge Northfield Falls
• Titcomb Bridge Perkinsville
• Giorgetti Bridge Pittsfield
• Hammond Covered Bridge Pittsford
• Depot Bridge Pittsford
• Gorham Bridge Pittsford
• Cooley Bridge Pittsford
• Quechee Bridge Quechee
• Victorian Village Bridge Rockingham
• Bartonsville Bridge Rockingham
• Worrall Bridge Rockingham
• Twin Bridge Rutland Town
• Kinsbury Bridge S Randolph
• Hall Bridge Saxtons River
• Shelburne Museum Bridge Shelburne
• Shoreham Covered RR Br Shoreham
• Brown Bridge Shrewsbury
• Private Bridge Rt 11 near Simonsville
• Howe Bridge South Tunbridge
• Baltimore Bridge Springfield
• White Caps Bridge Rt 108 Stowe
• Private Stowe Emily's Bridge Stowe
• Sidewalk Stowe
• Chiselville Bridge Sunderland
• Taftsville Bridge Taftsville
• Union Village Bridge Thetford
• Thetford Center Bridge
• Thetford Scott Bridge Townsend
• River Road Bridge Troy
• Cilley Bridge Tunbridge
• Mill Bridge Tunbridge
• Holmes Creek Bridge W Charlotte
• West Salisbury Bridge W Salisbury
• private Rt 12 near West Woodstock
• Village Bridge Waitsfield
• Pine Brook Bridge Waitsfield
• Battleground Bridge Warren
• Warren Bridge Warren
• Codding Bridge Waterville
• Church Street Bridge Waterville
• Private Waterville
• private - Rt 109 Waterville
• Salmond Bridge Weathersfield
• Upper Falls Bridge Weathersfield
• Bowers Bridge West Windsor
• Brown's River Bridge Westford
• High Mowing Farm Bridge Wilmington
• Windsor-Cornish Bridge Windsor
• Middle Bridge Woodstock Lincoln Bridge Wood

September Rides - by Muriel Farrington

September seems to offer the best riding days of the year. It started off for me with the return trip from the Finger Lakes Rally. (The ride over was pretty darned nice as well.) Pete and Dotty DeCota and I left in the sunshine and returned in the sunshine, with Pete leading us through the twisties in New York. Then came the Purity Springs Rally—couldn’t have asked for a nicer weekend. There was even a display of northern lights that some fortunate people got to see.

I rode a 330-mile loop over the Kanc, Bear Notch Rd, over to Rt 16 up through Errol to Rangely. The ride down from Rangely on Rt 17 was spectacular. I ended up in Mexico, ME, riding Rt 2 to Gilead, then down 113 to Fryeburg and back to Madison and the rally. Our own Green Mountain Rally was warm and mostly sunny—especially during prime riding time Saturday. I’d been wanting to ride over into New York, so I headed south on Rt 7 to Brandon, wiggled my way over to the Ft Ticonderoga ferry, and followed some roads Mike Cousino had mentioned.

I rode up into the hills and over the other side north of Ticonderoga, ended up in Ironville (home of electricity, according to one sign), and through the woods to Crown Point. I rode Lake Drive for a while, then back on Rt 22. I crossed at Crown Point to Chimney Point to watch some archeological demonstrations and chat with old archeology buddies, then on back over the bridge to New York. The ride up 22 to Essex is really nice. Crossed the lake at Essex to Charlotte. There were four Beemers on the boat—another rally attendee, Jim Tolley of the ROV, and a young man from Kansas riding an R65 with his buddy on the back. He was excited to see the Beemers and said he was in the process of moving to the area. I told him about the MOV.

I meandered over to 116, and rode on down to 125 in East Middlebury, stopping at the store for a cold lemonade (I have a hard time stopping for lunch—and I’d depleted my water supply). A guy from Chicago on a R100 came out of the store and saw a bunch of Beemers pull into the parking lot—his eyes lit up. He had just come over the Middlebury Gap, had done the Appalachian Gap earlier, and thought he was in heaven. I told him there were well over 200 of us up in the hills at our Rally. He said he had to be in Buffalo that night—he was really sad he couldn’t stay longer. Says he has to go 100 miles to get anywhere interesting to ride in his part of the world. We’ve got to know how lucky we are.