Vermont places

Places to Go in Vermont

24 towns and places, by region. Pick one on the map, or browse below.

Northwest Vermont

Lake Champlain, the Champlain Islands and Vermont's biggest city

Burlington

Burlington is Vermont's biggest city, easily walkable and bikeable, with a popular public square. It has several public beaches and miles of waterfront on Lake Champlain, New England's largest lake.

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Middlebury

Middlebury sits among the rolling hills and farmland of the Champlain Valley, with Otter Creek running through town. Its draws include Robert Frost's homestead, Middlebury College and the college's Snow Bowl ski area.

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Shelburne

Shelburne is home to Shelburne Museum, 39 distinct structures on 45 acres. Its founder relocated historic buildings to the grounds as settings for her collections, among them a lighthouse, a one-room schoolhouse and a general store.

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St. Albans

St. Albans is centered on Taylor Park, near Lake Champlain, with a weekly farmers market and a summer music series. It is the starting point of the 26-mile Missisquoi Valley Rail Trail, and a ferry from nearby Kill Kare State Park crosses to Burton Island.

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Vergennes

Vergennes, among Vermont's smallest cities, fits into two square miles near Lake Champlain. It has a walkable downtown, a historic opera house and a nearby maritime museum with underwater exhibits for divers.

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Central Vermont

The golden-domed capital, Mount Mansfield and the Mad River Valley

Barre

Barre sits between Groton State Forest and the Green Mountains, with a history as a stone capital of the world. Its walkable downtown is decorated with stone sculptures, and the world's deepest dimension granite quarry is open for tours.

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Montpelier

Montpelier is Vermont's capital and the smallest state capital in the US, set where two rivers meet below surrounding hillsides. Visitors can tour the golden-domed Vermont State House, one of the country's oldest operating state houses.

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Randolph

Downtown Randolph, along the third branch of the White River and near Vermont's geographic center, has railroad-era architecture and Victorian homes. The Playhouse Movie Theatre was the first purpose-built single-screen movie theater in Vermont.

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Stowe

Stowe's walkable downtown of well-preserved historic buildings sits at the base of Mount Mansfield, Vermont's tallest mountain. Mountain Road runs six miles past shops and family attractions, alongside a five-mile paved recreation path.

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Waitsfield

Waitsfield is the gateway to the Mad River Valley, where the Great Eddy Covered Bridge spans the Mad River, which flows from south to north. Sugarbush Resort, Mad River Glen and the Long Trail are nearby.

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Waterbury

Waterbury has a walkable village center with restaurants that cook with what's local. Factory tours at Ben & Jerry's, the public beach on the Waterbury Reservoir and two mountain biking trail networks draw visitors.

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Southeast Vermont

Quechee Gorge, Woodstock and the Connecticut River towns

Brattleboro

Brattleboro stands on the banks of the Connecticut and West rivers, with a historic downtown of brick buildings. Its literary history includes the site where Rudyard Kipling wrote "The Jungle Book," and three historic covered bridges are in the area.

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Quechee

Quechee sits on US Route 4 at Quechee State Park, whose focal point is Vermont's deepest gorge, formed by glacial activity about 13,000 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of visitors stop each year to look down at the Ottauquechee River, 165 feet below.

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Wilmington

Wilmington lies between Brattleboro and Bennington, near the banks of Harriman Reservoir. It has miles of trails reachable from downtown, nearby skiing, and a place on the Molly Stark Byway.

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Windsor

Windsor is home to the Old Constitution House, the former Elijah West tavern. Vermont's first constitution was adopted there on July 8, 1777.

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Woodstock

Woodstock is a year-round town where the Middle covered bridge crosses a branch of the Ottauquechee River downtown. Its attractions include a working public farm and Vermont's only national park.

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Southwest Vermont

Historic Route 7A, the Taconics and Killington Peak

Bennington

Bennington is Vermont's oldest town, home to the 306-foot Bennington Battle Monument, the state's tallest man-made structure. The Bennington Museum holds the world's largest collection of Grandma Moses folk art.

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Brandon

Brandon, dubbed the "Art & Soul" of Vermont, is a walkable town of galleries, studios and shops. Its entire downtown core of 243 buildings is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Killington

Killington is home to the Northeast's largest ski area, known as the Beast of the East. Outside ski season it keeps busy with a bike park, a golf course and an adventure center.

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Manchester

Manchester sits between the Green Mountain and Taconic ranges, with the Battenkill River wrapping around the town and Mount Equinox, 3,850 feet, on its skyline. Visitors can explore a 1900s mansion built by the Lincoln family or play more than 60 vintage pinball machines.

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Rutland

Rutland's downtown is known for historic architecture and murals on brick buildings, and the Paramount Theatre, built in 1912, still hosts live performances. State parks and the Green Mountain National Forest are nearby.

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The Northeast Kingdom

Glacial lakes, back roads and a library on the Canadian border

Hardwick

Hardwick is a historic downtown directly on the 95-mile Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, with a bridge over the river running through its center. Its railroad once carried stone from nearby quarries to the finishing shops.

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Newport

Newport, Vermont's northernmost city, lies on the southern shore of Lake Memphremagog a few miles south of the Quebec border. Visitors come for boating and swimming, Jay Peak's indoor waterpark, and a library that straddles the border.

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St. Johnsbury

St. Johnsbury's mill and scale-making history shapes its architecture and museums. It offers a collection of Victorian curiosities, the state's only public planetarium and Stephen Huneck's dog chapel, with acres of public land for people and pets.

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