Wampahoofus Trail starts from Butler Lodge around 3,000 feet up the side of Mount Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak, and continues until it meets the legendary Long Trail atop Mansfield’s generally comparatively unpeopled Forehead area. To get to Wampahoofus, you’ll first have to hike up the 1.8 mile Butler Lodge Trail. You can stay overnight in the lodge or continue directly to Wampahoofus. The trail was named for a mythical creature of Vermont’s Green Mountains that predates even the yeti and Bigfoot in the Western consciousness. Also known as a gyascutus or…
