Craftsbury Outdoor Center Campus Preview

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Outdoor Center Office

The office is the place to ask questions and learn about all the Craftsbury Outdoor Center has to offer.

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Waterfront

Great Hosmer Pond provides the venue for Craftsbury’s sculling programs, as well as serving as the focal point of Outdoor Center summers. The Center partners with the State of Vermont to monitor the lake’s health and fight invasive milfoil. Public access to Great Hosmer is available in the summer and the water body is groomed for skiing in the winter time.

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Dining Hall

The new dining hall utilizes ground source heat pumps, among other green construction technologies. The Outdoor Center buys local food whenever possible. During the growing season, food grown across the Center’s campus is used in meals for guests and athletes.

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Hilltop Cabins

Each cabin has a porch, private bath, small kitchenette, and beautiful views either to the west overlooking the lake, or to the east looking out over the ski trail toward the hills. They are heated by our innovative central heating system that uses high-efficiency wood boilers, along with the waste heat from our snow-making generator, solar thermal and a supplemental heat pump in the summer months.

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Woodshed

The Outdoor Center uses long and short cut wood to heat buildings across campus. The long cut wood is used to power a large highly efficient wood boiler, while the short cut wood is used in a smaller boiler and in stoves across the campus.

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Boiler and Generator Room

The main heating system of the campus is driven by two Froling wood gasification boilers. During snowmaking operations, heat is recovered from the diesel generator which powers the snow guns by insulated heat recovery pipes and is used to heat buildings across the Center.

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Cedar Water Tank

Underneath the concrete pad off the northeast corner of Cedar lodge is a 20,000-gallon water tank. This tank is a heat reservoir for the Craftsbury Outdoor Center’s waste-heat recovery system. Heat from our wood-fired boilers, solar hot water panels, as well as the operation of our diesel snowmaking generator is collected into the tank for storage and distribution to buildings around campus. The photo shows the instruments that monitor and distribute the hot water across the campus.

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Car Charging Station

In the upper parking lot of the Outdoor Center, near our main lodge, there is an electric car charging station. Look for the marked spaces to find a 220V outlet with several different types of plugs to suit your car. If you drive your electric car here, we’re happy to offer you free charging!

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Solar Arrays

The eight tracking solar arrays located in the upper field produce between 39,000-50,000kWh annually. Two Activity Center arrays produce a total of 67,000-78,000kWh annually while arrays on the maintenance garage and shed produce about 40,000kWh per year. The entire Outdoor Center uses approximately 187,000 kWh of electricity per year, meaning 84 percent is offset by solar between the tracking and fixed roof solar arrays. The power produced by our solar panels is fed back into the power grid for distribution when production exceeds the Center’s immediate needs.

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Activity Center

In the fall of 2014, the Center opened a high efficiency Activity Center. Highlights of this building include radiant floor heat, an EarthTube air exchange, concrete floor slabs, insulated concrete form (ICF) walls, and well-sealed windows and doors. The bathrooms contain low-flow fixtures, Clivus composting toilets, and showers on timer systems. The interior siding is spruce and fir from New Hampshire, the pine countertops and tabletops are from Morrisville, and the cedar furniture legs are from on site at the Center.

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Office

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