Two bouts of flooding in July has hampered businesses and destinations in an economically depressed section of northeastern Vermont, with some still closed as they continue to repair damage and others urging visitors, who were deterred by the weather, to make the trip.
A cyclist looks at a closed flood-damaged bridge at Kingdom Trails in Burke, Vt., Aug. 14, 2024. A family from Montreal heads to Kingdom Trails in Burke, Vt., Aug. 14, 2024, two weeks after flooding damaged trails. A sign is shown Aug. 14, 2024, at Kingdom Trails in Burke, Vt., two weeks after flooding damaged trails. A cyclist looks at a closed flood-damaged bridge at Kingdom Trails in Burke, Vt., Aug. 14, 2024. A cyclist looks at a closed flood-damaged bridge at Kingdom Trails in Burke, Vt.
“I can’t stress enough that we are open and our community is welcoming people,” said Abby Long, executive director of Kingdom Trails. “We’re encouraging folks to not only come visit Kingdom Trails and have an awesome time but sign up to volunteer mucking and gutting houses for the morning and then relax on the trails in the afternoon.”
“It’s traumatic, it’s unbelievable the extent that it ripples out,” he said. “If Kingdom Trails can’t open, people cancel their reservations at the Airbnbs and at the inns. We have restaurants that are counting on all of those people coming here. And it’s just a chain event that eventually dwindles where you have these absolutely beautiful days and you just don’t have the people here that we normally would have if we didn’t have this devastation.
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