Become a member of VHA!
Together, we’re creating immersive and enriching outdoor experiences for everyone! By becoming a member, you can help increase equitable access to the outdoors, boost rural economies, and catalyze conservation through recreation!
We’re thrilled to have you as a member of the Vermont Huts Association family! Your support is crucial in helping us create and maintain the trail and hut network, making it easier for everyone to experience the beauty of Vermont’s outdoors. With your membership, we’re able to build accessible huts and hostels, protect our natural landscapes, and inspire a love for adventure in people of all ages and abilities.
Every contribution counts, so please join at the level that’s most comfortable for you. Your generosity fuels our mission and makes a real impact.
All membership levels receive 15% off each and every hut booking! Plus 10% off all VHA merchandise from Hubnotic.
Membership increases equity.
Our FOREST Program partners with school districts and other nonprofits to invite historically marginalized communities onto the trail and into our huts entirely free of charge. Outdoor educators lead workshops in sustainability, teamwork, and recreation over two days and two nights in the wilderness. Each weekend retreat costs about $2,000 and participants never pay. (Learn more here.)
Membership means miles.
Your membership enables trail building throughout the state, connecting communities and creating new points of access to recreation. Each foot of new trail costs $7.50 to construct. (Learn more about the Velomont here.)
Membership catalyzes conservation
When complete, the Velomont project has potential to conserve up to 214,000 acres of land! This will not only guarantee public access to the network for generations to come, but also play a key role in protecting the valuable climate resilience corridor for species migration as temperatures rise.
Membership enables access
Our huts and hostels (and outhouses!) are ADA accessible, encouraging recreationalists of all ages and abilities to play, and stay, in Vermont’s great outdoors. It costs approximately $12,000 to build an ADA accessible ramp into each hut.