Harding Forest
Bricketts Crossing Road : Cabot, VT 05647
Washington County, Vermont
Land Description
Harding Forest sits on the line between the towns of Cabot and Walden, on the edge of the Northeast Kingdom region of Vermont. This rural area, which extends to the Canadian border, is a hard-working landscape of family farms, managed forests, wilderness areas, and small villages. The property enjoys frontage on a graveled, town-maintained road, and an internal road connects to a series of trails that traverse the property.
The property is well-suited to multiple uses, especially the establishment of a year-round home site at either of the land’s existing clearings. Both locations provide level terrain and well-drained soils compatible with housing. Old stone walls, which cut across various portions of the property, indicate an agricultural history where nearly all of the land was once cleared for pasture and hay crops. Widely-scattered, very large-diameter sugar maples with low, broad crowns indicate the remnants of a former sugarbush.
The forest has been in the same ownership for many decades, and has primarily been used as a woodlot and source of periodic income from forestry operations. Overall, forest aesthetics are attractive with thinning likely required again in 15 years. The property’s water resources consist of a small stream and associated wetland at the forest’s extreme southern boundary.
