Maple Wind Farm

In partnership with the landowners at Maple Wind Farm, Richmond Mountain Trails opened a new network of trails in 2025. Hand built by dedicated volunteers, these trails mark the beginning of a growing collaboration between outdoor recreation and regenerative agriculture — right here in Richmond, Vermont. We are so grateful to Maple Wind for sharing their beautiful land with us. View trails on Trailforks.

The property has future potential for trail expansion, further strengthening connections between the neighboring networks.
Phase one Trails include:
Winner Winner – An important off-raoad connection into the main network and the start point for both Chicken Dinner and Egg Salad. This short but dynamic trail packs in terrain variety, including sections that skirt the base of a cliff. A stone ramp midway requires some speed to clear, but with enough momentum it rolls up smoothly.
Chicken Dinner – The primary lower climbing trail. A blue-rated ascent with hand-cut benching and berms, plus a mix of low-consequence technical features.
Wishbone – An upper two-way dark-blue/light-black trail for both climbing and descending. Expect off-camber ledge, rocky features, and bike-handling challenges. Designed to be engaging in either direction, it balances approachable grades with plenty of natural, low-consequence tech. Despite its black rating, it remains highly climbable.
Egg Salad – A short lower-hill blue-rated descent, mixing berms, loam, ledge, and bench-cut sections. The Bird Man roller — a double-black rock feature drops to the right near the bottom, while the B-line continues left. Walk the A-line first—it’s spicy.
Bacon Strip – An upper downhill/connector traverse with ledgy “roller coasters,” crossing the high farm meadow and linking into Andrews Community Forest logging roads. Provides connections east to VYCC hiking/biking trails and west to Andrews Community Forest.
Together, these trails provide a key link between properties and expand access for hikers, walkers, and riders moving between Maple Wind Farm, Andrews, and VYCC.

When you are out for a ride, stop into the Maple Wind Farm store (open daily) for farm fresh food and other Vermont products. Read more about the partnership between agriculture and recreation on MWF’s blog, here.