Tags: Mountain Pass, Ski Area.
Smugglers Notch (or Smugglers’ or Smuggler’s) is a mountain pass in Lamoille County Vermont.The notch separates Mount Mansfield the highest peak of the Green Mountains from Spruce Peak and the Sterling Range.Most of the notch is in Mount Mansfield State Forest.North of the height of land Smugglers Notch is drained by the Brewster River which drains into the Lamoille River and into Lake Champlain.To the south the notch is drained by the West Branch Waterbury River thence into the Little River the Winooski River and into Lake Champlain.In turn Lake Champlain drains into the Richelieu River in Quebec thence into the Saint Lawrence River and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.Smugglers Notch derives its name from activities precipitated by a request of President Thomas Jefferson to prevent American involvement in the Napoleonic Wars.
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