Mount Wilson rises to 3,790 feet in the heart of Vermont's Breadloaf Wilderness, a quiet corner of the Green Mountain National Forest between Middlebury and Granville. It sits on a compact ridgeline shared with Bread Loaf Mountain and Mount Roosevelt, and appears on the New England Hundred Highest. Most visitors combine it with one or both neighbors rather than hiking it as a solo objective.
The two most popular approaches are the Skylight Pond Trail and the Emily Proctor Trail, each covering roughly 9 to 10 miles round trip with about 2,600 feet of gain. Both routes include maps and trailhead details online. The Skylight Pond Trail passes a scenic alpine pond and the Skylight Lodge, a backcountry shelter that makes overnight trips convenient. Both trails join the Long Trail on the ridgeline before continuing to the summit. A shorter option, the Clark Brook Trail from Granville, gains the ridge in about 3 miles and reaches Wilson in under a mile along the Long Trail.
The summit itself is forested with no open views, but the high-elevation boreal forest along the ridge is a pleasure to walk through, and Skylight Pond provides the scenic highlight of the most popular approach. Spring mud can be significant on all routes, and some trail junctions are poorly marked; a paper map or downloaded GPS track is worth carrying. Seasonal road closures may affect trailhead access in early spring.
