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Smugglers' Notch

Stowe, VT

The narrow mountain pass is filled with enormous glacial boulders and a twisting road so tight that large vehicles cannot safely pass through. Its name comes from stories of nineteenth-century smuggling through the Green Mountains, and the road closes seasonally when snow makes the notch impassable.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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