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A newly published historical photograph shows a graded dirt road built by the Civilian Conservation Corps winding up Burke Mountain in East Burke, Vermont, circa 1935. The image, drawn from the Albert Gottlieb Papers at the University of Vermont Libraries, offers a glimpse of the landscape before the area became a ski destination. Through the mountain notch, Lake Willoughby is visible, itself the site of another CCC project.
The road, constructed by the New Deal-era work program, remains in use today as part of the Burke Mountain trail network.
Originally reported by North Star Monthly.
Photo: Paige Lorenze (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0). Photo is illustrative and not from the scene.
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