Welcome to the Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association!

The Pinnacle is the highest and most scenic peak (+/-1683 feet) in Westminster, Vermont. It is located on the Windmill Ridge, straddling the Brookline/Westminster line. The view from the Pinnacle overlooks Hedgehog Gulf in Brookline and westward to Mount Snow and Stratton Mountain, over 20 miles away.

The dream of conserving The Pinnacle developed as a use of the Jamie Latham Memorial Fund, established in November 1991 to honor a young man who had loved this beautiful spot. From this beginning, the Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association was formed. It is now a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation under both State and Federal law.

Its lands now consist of 1,562 +/- acres in Rockingham, Athens, Brookline, and Westminster. These publicly-accessible lands include an extensive hiking trail system and wildlife sanctuary. View a map of the Reserve here (1 mb file)
At the Pinnacle peak is a lean-to (below) that is available for overnight camping. Visit the Reserve Use Page for information on how to make a reservation for the lean-to!

** NEWS **

Thanks to Tom Wessels for a great guided walk up the Pinnacle on Sunday October 19! This walk was featured on VPR - listen here Visit the VPR site.
	Tom Wessels (center)

Recent news includes the acquisition of the Cowan property on the west side of the Pinnacle itself. This adds 110 acres of steep woodland, broadening the reserve in the central location of the ridge. The management plan for this new property notes that there are pockets of trees that are 240 years old! With this acquisition there is now access to the Reserve for the public from the town of Brookline, which previously had no conserved trail to the WHPA portion of the ridge.

On January 24, 2008, the Pinnacle Association embarked on its newest project and its first off Windmill Ridge. With the Bald Hill Conservation Committee, a working group of the Association, it signed a purchase agreement on a 57-acre parcel on the Saxtons River abutting Bellows Falls Union High School land, and the already-conserved Basin Farm and Twin Falls. Including the Bald Hill summit, long a traditional hiking destination but now under threat of development,, this parcel will be the focus of a 300-acre-plus reserve for wildlife habitat protection, recreation and educational purposes. An application was submitted on March 3, 2008, to the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board for partial funding of this acquisition. Please see the Bald Hill Conservation Committee’s web site, which was recently created with major help from Compass School students, for maps, photos and information on how you could help with this project.

** UPCOMING EVENTS **

TBA

The Pinnacle lean-to	The view from the lean-to. That is Stratton Mountain in the distance.

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