Vermont Parks and Outdoors Travel Guide

Vermont Parks and Outdoors Travel Guide

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Glenn Falls in Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont
Glenn Falls, Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont (Corbis)

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Vermont Overview

Vermont's rolling, cow-spotted hills, shaggy peaks, sugar maples, and towns clustered along river valleys give it a distinct sense of place. Still primarily rural, the state is filled with dairy farms, dirt roads, and small-scale enterprises. The towns here are home to an intriguing mix of old-time Vermonters, back-to-the-landers who showed up in VW buses in the 1960s and stayed (many getting involved with municipal affairs; think Ben and Jerry), and newer, moneyed arrivals from New York or Boston who came to ski or B&B and never could quite leave. Read More


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Fort Ticonderoga

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On Lake Champlain
Southern Adirondacks, New York

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Catamount Cross Country Trail

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Waitsfield, Vermont
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Sherburne Pass Trail/Loop

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US 4, nine miles east of US 7 in Rutland


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Churchill House Inn

3128 Forest Dale Road
Brandon, VT 05733

Hotel Class: 3 class stars

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Inn of the Six Mountains

2617 Killington Rd
Killington, VT 05751

Hotel Class: 3 class stars

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Whispering Pines Campground

1072 Panton Road
Vergennes, VT 05491

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