Outdoor Recreation

EAST BURKE, VT – Saturday, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, attended the Kingdom Trails’ 30th Anniversary and Landowner Appreciation Celebration and recognized the decades of dedication and contributions of local volunteers and landowners to outdoor recreation in…

BOLTON, VT – Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), member of the Senate Commerce Committee, in conjunction with the U.S. Travel “Travel Works” program, an event at Richmond Mountain Trails’ (RMT) The Driving Range, the first fully adaptive-mountain bike accessible trail system in Vermont, located…

The trail network is expected to make mountain biking more accessible to adaptive riders, and recreation and tourism leaders see a potential economic boost. U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, speaks with Greg Durso in his adaptive mountain bike during a tour of Richmond Mountain Trails’…