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Hazen’s Notch is a mountain pass in Westfield in the northern Green Mountains of Vermont. Hazen’s Notch was named after Moses Hazen who in 1779 led the construction of the Bayley Hazen Military Road as far as this point on a route which started at Newbury Vermont and was originally planned to continue to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Quebec not far from Montreal.The notch is defined by the cliffs of Sugarloaf Mountain to the north and by Haystack Mountain to the south.