Earth Peoples Park

Earth Peoples Park was a 592-acre communal tract of swamp and forest on the Canada-U.S. border in Norton, Vermont, created in 1970 as a radical experiment in shared land ownership. Held by a nonprofit trust for “all of the peoples of the earth,” it welcomed people to camp or homestead rent-free in a remote setting that gradually filled with improvised dwellings and gathering spaces. After years of legal trouble, including a federal narcotics investigation, the government seized the land in 1990 and removed the remaining residents. In 1994, the property passed to Vermont and became part of Black Turn Brook State Forest.

Norton, Vermont · United States