Travel Information for Vermont Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Vermont attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Vermont state park, this is where you will find it.
VERMONT is famous for its country inns, covered bridges, and recreational opportunities: in the summertime there is hiking, biking, swimming and sightseeing; in the winter snowmobiling, snowboarding, skiing downhill or cross-country, skating, and autumn is, or course, Vermont's incredibly beautiful foliage season. Sugarbush, Sugarbush North and Mad River Glen combine in Fayston, Warren and Waitsfield to provide one of the nation's most complete ski resorts.
BASIN HARBOR surrounds a secluded cove on Lake Champlain; The Maritime Museum has exhibits of the history and characters of the Champlain Valley.
Attractions in BENNINGTON include the Bennington Museum with Revolutionary War Memorabilia, and five covered bridges in Bennington County.
BRISTOL is the gateway to Vermont's Green Mountains where Camel’s Hump State Park has a double-humped profile; it is one of the villages in Addison County which stretches from the shores of Lake Champlain to the peaks of the Green Mountains and includes Middlebury and Vergennes.
Located in the Lake Champlain Valley, visitors can experience frontier life at BURLINGTON with guided tours of the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum & Historic Site, home of the 18th century revolutionary war hero and one of Vermont’s Founding Fathers.
The Museum & Planetarium in FAIRBANKS houses northern New England's premiere museum of natural history.
Visitors to the Rokeby Museum, FERRISBURG, will discover the Underground Railroad in Vermont, tour the fully furnished house and eight historic farm buildings and meet the Quaker family who lived here for nearly 200 years.
Located in the northwestern corner of Vermont, LAKE CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS are the entry point to winter or summer recreation on Lake Champlain. The "flying white stallions" – Herrmann's Royal Lipizzan Stallions – perform at their summer residence in NORTH HERO. St. Anne's Shrine on Isle La Motte is a religious and historical site.
The historic district of Vermont’s capital, MONTPELIER, is a well preserved collection of the essential buildings comprising any 19th century New England town. Vermont State House is the pride of Vermont with its gold-leaf dome; Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site is a Revolutionary War site; the nation's oldest private military college, Norwich Military Museum is on the campus of Norwich University, and five miles south of Montpelier at MIDDLESEX is Camp Meade Military Museum which features Depression era and World War II exhibits. At Morse Farm & Sugar House visitors can see how maple sugaring works from trees to finished products.
In the MOOSALAMOO region visitors can hike along the Long Trail, or from Lake Dunmore up to Rattlesnake Cliffs, walk among the wild blueberries of Hogback with spectacular mountain views to the east, south and west; or stroll around the Robert Frost Trail.
NORTHEAST KINGDOM is a four-season recreation area and a world-wide destination for its spectacular fall foliage and maple syrup in the spring.
The Norwich Military Museum in NORTHFIELD is on the campus of Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military college; at Northfield Falls there are four covered Wooden Bridges. Visitors can see the National Historic Mill Village QUECHEE from balloons; North Hartland Lake has over 1,700 acres of land ranging from forests and fields to wetlands and a reservoir. Wilderness Trails abound.
The Porter Music Box Museum in RANDOLPH houses a collection of music boxes. There are guided tours of historic downtown RUTLAND; The Norman Rockwell Museum of Vermont is a nationally recognized collection of Norman Rockwell' s illustrations, commemorating his Vermont years and the entire span and diversity of his career (1911-1978).
Visitors to SHELBURNE will discover 37 buildings – and a lighthouse, steam locomotive, vintage carousel, covered bridge, and restored steamboat – at the Shelburne Museum, Inc.; other attractions include Shelburne Farms on the shores of Lake Champlain – a 1,400-acre working farm and national historic site and an environmental education center – and the Vermont Teddy Bear Company, where visitors can see how Teddy bears are produced.
SMUGGLERS' NOTCH is a four-season vacation destination on what some locals refer to as 'the quiet side of the Mountain'.
STOWE Mountain Resort is on Vermont’s highest peak, Mount Mansfield. Bridge Street Marketplace, WAITSFIELD VILLAGE, is a restored block of five historic buildings (circa 1860).
Cold Hollow Cider Mill is a working apple cider mill in WATERBURY which is home to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream where visitors can enjoy factory tours.
Real spider webs are harvested at Spider Web Farm, WILLIAMSTOWN.
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