Cold Spring flows out of the ground near a dirt road intersection in south Shaftsbury creating Cold Spring Brook. Cold Spring has been an important town water source for generations and has flowed continuously for hundreds of years. Several residents still get their water from Cold Spring. When Trenor Park built the historic Park-McCullough House in North Bennington, he wanted Cold Spring water. An aqueduct was built from the headwaters to the mansion, passing over Cold Spring Brook via a picturesque stone bridge built solely to carry the water pipe (nearby cache Cold Spring Brook Bridge.)
Cold Spring is on private land, though as least partly in the right of way of the road. Please be respectful. The is no parking to be had right at the sight. Your best bet is on the road shoulder to the west. Traffic is lighest west of the intersection.