Killington Peak summit
— — where the long ridge finally lifts.
Not only on a wall.
“Killington Peak rises to 4,229 ft on the central Green Mountain ridge in Sherburne, Vermont. The K-1 gondola reaches a small summit station; a short rocky path leads the rest of the way to the true high point. From the top the view runs north to Mansfield, south to Equinox, and on clear afternoons east into the White Mountains across the Connecticut River.
Killington Peak summit, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Killington Peak rises to 4,229 ft in the town of Killington, Vermont, second only to Mount Mansfield among Vermont summits. The peak sits on the spine of the Green Mountains, 12 miles east of Rutland on U.S. Route 4. The Killington summit ridge holds Killington Resort, the largest ski area in the eastern United States by skiable acreage at 1,509. The Long Trail and the Appalachian Trail share tread along the ridge below the summit cone before splitting north at Maine Junction, a few miles to the north.
The exposed summit cone holds krummholz balsam fir, the wind-stunted forest of the New England alpine zone, ending in a bare rock crown. Wind on the summit averages over 25 mph in winter, and the upper mountain holds snow into May most years. Annual snowfall on the resort's upper trails averages roughly 250 inches. The treeline here is not driven by altitude alone but by exposure — the cone catches storm tracks running up the spine from the south and the west.
The K-1 Express Gondola runs daily in ski season and on a summer-and-foliage schedule posted on killington.com. From the K-1 Lodge at 2,135 ft the ride takes roughly twelve minutes to the summit station near 4,100 ft. A short fenced rock path reaches the true summit at 4,229 ft. Foliage on the central Green Mountains usually peaks the first to second week of October, when the gondola runs daily for leaf-peepers from across New England.