Following a State Taxation Spat in 2004, Killington-Vermont is Moved to New Hampshire in 2010
Killington New Hampshire was created after a long -running squabble over millions of dollars of tax revenue with the state of Vermont, got out of hand.
The Killington Vermont Tax Squabble of 2004:
Killington was sending huge amounts of money to the VT state legislature but received few services due to its “resort town” classification.
The state of Vermont was pressed by the Killington Ski area to allow the whole mountain to secede to the neighboring state of New Hampshire, where there are no applicable state taxes and the new state would be more supportive of the goals to be the best ski area on the East coast of the US.
Killington Residents Set Up Secret “Lift and Shift” Plan in 2010
Killington residents secretly commissioned a study to actually physically transport Killington mountain across the border into New Hampshire, rock by rock.
When the political initiative failed in the Vermont legislature in 2010, Vermont residents engaged this plan and thus began the mammoth project of moving 25 billion tons of rock from Killington Mountain, Vermont to a new site called Killington Mountain, New Hampshire, 25 miles down the road, just outside Woodstock, creating the new Aspen, just on the East Coast.
Killington Mountain is Moved, Rock by Rock, Across State Border to New Hampshire in 2010
The transfer included the five separate mountains of Killington, a 4 mile long stretch of access road and a variety of bars, restaurants and homes.
Unfortunately the surrounding towns of Killington could not be moved, so the towns of Mendon, Pittsfield, Bridgewater and Rutland fell into disrepair and ultimately became abandoned and ghostly. They were subsequently used in a number of spaghetti westerns.
Killington Access Road Hotels, Bars and Stores Moved
All the famous spots on the Killington access road were successfully moved including “Fickles” a drunken singles bar/nightclub, and “The Wobbly Burn” This bar was named after the medical condition often contracted by visiting this location on a Saturday night)
Other bars like Sushi He-She (where the bar staff are active members of the local transgendered community) were not able to move to zoning issues.
Although “The Shops at the Shack” appeared to be on the Killington access road, their store entrance was actually on Route 4, so the building was left and is now home to a politically-correct “blended” family of brown and black bears, that seem to get along quite well.