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Vermont Parks and Outdoors Travel Guide

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Top Parks and Outdoors Destinations In Vermont

Green Mountain National Forest, VT
(39 mi.)

Travel Guides In Vermont

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Glenn Falls in Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont

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

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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Feature Articles

Vermont
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Like Maple Syrup
The Weekender
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Ride Horseback through Vermont
GORP - Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge , Maine
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The Exhaust-Free, Self-Propelled Foliage Tour
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Let the motorized leaf peepers have their New England. It'll keep them far away from ours.
The Perfect 10
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Seyon Ranch, Vermont

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Trip Ideas

Five Great Family Escapes
100-Mile Wilderness Trail, Maine
Fall's Finest? Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont
GORP's Top 10 Autumn Escapes: Fall's Best Forests

Practical Advice

Seafood Watch: The Eastern Seaboard
Oceana, an organization seeking to protect and restore the world’s oceans, offers information on the environmental impacts of eating various types of seafood.
Family Travel Survival Guide: Cancun
Holistic Travel: Eco-Savvy Ways to See the World
What Is Eco-Tourism
Make Your Bed
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Backcountry Touring 101
Excerpts from the Backcountry Byways series (Wilderness Press)

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Gear

Complete Gear Archives: Camping
From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things related to camping
The Goods: Road Trips
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Fly-Fishing Gear Essentials
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Marmot Aura Tent
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Home Sweet Dome
Simms G3 Guide Waders
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Fitness

City Without Limits
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Seattle
Adventure Never Felt So Good
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The Hills Health Ranch

Attractions

Fort Ticonderoga

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On Lake Champlain
Southern Adirondacks, New York

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Military-history buffs will be in heaven at... Read More

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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

Description: This blue-blazed trail forms a loop with the Appalachian Trail a half-mile up the path.... Read More

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