With the highest peak at 4,393 feet, Mount Mansfield is Vermont's highest mountain, very popular among hikers in the summer and skiers in the winter. When observed from the West or East, it looks like a human profile, with the chin sticking up highest. The mountain is intersected by a number of hiking trails. The popular Long Trail crosses the mountain's main ridgeline.

The east flank is used for skiing in the winter by the Stowe Mountain Resort. Mount Mansfield's summit has about 200 acres of real alpine tundra that remained from the Ice Age, one of only three spots in Vermont. "The Nose" is a convenient location for transmitter towers for several local radio and TV stations.

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