A classic wooden inn with snow-covered roofs, a restaurant rated #1 in the Jay Peak area, and rooms from $132.50 a night — the Jay Village Inn is the village's beloved home base.

Fifty-seven suites, ski-in/ski-out access, and a building raised by Vermont craftsmen from recycled mountain materials — Tram Haus Lodge is the Stateside base's home base.

Cavendish-based FAA Part 107 pilot Allen Clark shoots aerial photos and video for real estate, inspections, and more across Vermont and Southwest New Hampshire.

Ski patroller by winter, builder by summer — Ace Lavanovich brings 15 years of carpentry and landscaping experience to Ludlow and the surrounding area.

Taylor and Ace Lavanovich have spent 10 years photographing and filming weddings across New England — and they are based right here in Vermont.

A 10-barrel brewery and taproom on Proctorsville's village green, where husband-and-wife brewers Wesley and Taylor Tice pour a diverse beer lineup alongside wood-fired pizza.

A 7,500-square-foot Proctorsville landmark famous nationwide for its Vermont smoked meats — the deli, smokehouse, and old-fashioned service that keep locals and Okemo visitors coming back since 1946.

In the hills of Reading, the Hall Art Foundation pairs major contemporary exhibitions with outdoor sculpture by world-renowned artists — a serious art destination in an unlikely, beautiful place.

On County Road in Montpelier, eight generations of maple sugaring come alive — watch syrup being made, sample it fresh, and taste the famous maple creemee, served year-round.

A small family-owned market on Route 114 in Lyndonville specializing in quality beef, pork, poultry, and Maine lobster — with house-made sausage, a working smoker, and 50 years of combined experience ...

Just off I-91's Exit 23 in Lyndonville, the Colonnade Inn offers clean, comfortable, affordable rooms minutes from Burke Mountain, Lyndon State, and the Kingdom's trails and lakes.

Downtown Bennington's pioneering brewpub pours house-brewed craft beer — from New England IPAs to old-world lagers — alongside a full pub menu, live music, and a family-friendly welcome.

A 1957 Silk City diner car in Bennington serving generations of breakfast and lunch favorites — blueberry pancakes with real Vermont maple syrup, cornbread French toast, and a menu far beyond the ordi...

Inside a restored 1925 Worcester dining car in Brattleboro, Chef Michael Fuller cooks a weekly-changing menu of locally foraged and farmed New England ingredients in an open kitchen.

A community-owned market on Main Street offering organic and natural groceries, a celebrated deli, and deep support for local farms — where every shopping trip doubles as an investment in Brattleboro.

The 1,411-seat Main Stage and the intimate Flynn Space make the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts the cultural heart of downtown Burlington.

The celebrated restaurant's downtown Burlington outpost serves a seasonal menu from Vermont farms and waters — nightly dining, a full bar, and one of the city's hardest reservations.

Gas, groceries, deli sandwiches, hardware, and hunting licenses under one roof — the East Corinth General Store is the village's living room.

Wood-fired pizza, live music, and a working farm in the hills west of Bradford — Saturday pizza nights at Crossmolina are the summer tradition worth planning around.

The celebrated restaurant's Woodstock outpost serves seasonal, farm-driven New American cuisine — raw bar, creative plates, and polished hospitality in the Upper Valley.

Made-to-order deli sandwiches, home-baked goods, and small-town warmth on Pomfret Road — the country store that locals swear by and visitors stumble into happily.

A 47-acre campus beside Quechee Gorge with rehabilitated raptors, an accessible treetop walk, and daily programs that bring Vermont's wildlife within arm's reach.

Watch glassblowers at work in a turbine-powered mill, dine above a waterfall, and shop hand-blown glass — the Quechee flagship is Vermont's most romantic one-stop destination.

Four generations of one family, one original Elm Street building, and everything from penny candy to cast-iron skillets — the general store that time kept.

A Jersey dairy herd, a restored 1890 farmhouse, and 150 years of Vermont farming history — Billings Farm & Museum is the Woodstock attraction that works as hard as it charms.

Founded in a Proctorsville garage in 1991, Woodchuck became America's top-selling hard cider and the first cidery to sell a million cases in a year; its Middlebury cidery welcomes visitors for tasting...

In Middlebury's Marble Works district overlooking Otter Creek falls, American Flatbread bakes all-natural flatbreads in a primitive wood-fired oven with a 12-tap bar and local farm specials.

A Manchester dining landmark on Main Street, Ye Olde Tavern serves dinner from 4:30 PM in a historic setting, with reservations taken by phone.

Founded in 1976 and housed in the historic Colburn House, Northshire is one of New England's largest independent bookstores, with expert booksellers, a children's floor, and a cafe.

Wilmington's cozy independent bookstore has served the Mount Snow Valley since 1989 with curated bestsellers, local Vermont titles, and the kind of staff recommendations you cannot get online.

Opened in 1903 in the heart of Wilmington, the landmark Crafts Inn blends historic character with an indoor pool, hot tub, saunas, and suites with full kitchens, steps from Mount Snow.

A log-cabin brewery taproom in West Dover pouring craft beer daily from noon to 8, Snow Republic pairs pints with pub food, live music, and a laid-back mountain-town hangout.

Perched above West Dover with views of Mount Snow's ski runs, Deerhill Inn pairs 13 cozy guest rooms with a full country breakfast, a full bar, and a seasonal pool, seven minutes from the lifts.

Family owned since 1994, Blue Gentian Lodge sits within walking distance of Magic Mountain and runs on 100 percent solar power, with a heated pool, hot tub, and a Steinway piano in the common room.

A rustic barn bakery off the main road in South Londonderry, Grandma Miller's turns out handmade pies, pastries, and take-and-bake entrees that skiers and locals swear by.

The Black Bear Lodge is Stratton Mountain's family-friendly resort lodge — 122 rooms, free ski shuttle, complimentary breakfast, hot tub, and sauna.

Downstairs at Mulligan's in Stratton Village, the Green Door Pub is the legendary 21+ après-ski bar voted best in North America by TransWorld Snowboarding.

Established in 1796, The Dorset Inn is Vermont's oldest continuously operating inn — historic rooms, farm-to-table dining, and a classic tavern in Dorset.

Johnny Seesaw's is the signature restaurant of Seesaw's Lodge in Peru — housemade pasta and craft cocktails in a historic log-beamed dining room since 1924.

The Rutland Area Food Co-op is a community-owned grocery at 77 Wales Street stocking 180+ local farms and producers — no membership required to shop.

Roots the Restaurant brings affordable farm-to-table American cooking to downtown Rutland, built on organic crops, humanely raised livestock, and local partners.

The Birch Ridge is a long-standing bed-and-breakfast lodge at 37 Butler Road in Killington, with individually decorated rooms minutes from the slopes.

On Killington Road since the mountain got its first ramen, Yama Ramen serves tonkotsu, miso, and spicy miso bowls made with ingredients from Vermont farms.

A Killington icon since 1981, Casey's Caboose serves family-friendly dining inside a genuine circa-1900, 35-ton railroad snowplow car on Killington Road.

A McGrath family-run rustic inn on Killington's Route 4 since 1977, with made-to-order breakfasts and the beloved McGrath's Irish Pub steps from your room.

A family-operated microbrewery in Richmond brewing traditional, unfiltered beers -- plus kombucha, seltzers, and a full pub kitchen with live music.

Cured with Vermont maple syrup and smoked over corn cobs for 150 years, Harrington's hams ship from Richmond to doorsteps nationwide.

River Arts enriches the Morrisville community with art, music, and connection -- adult classes, youth programs, and gallery shows at 74 Pleasant Street.

Craft beer, comfort food, and a packed music calendar make Moog's Place at 97 Portland Street the town's de facto living room.

Since 2012, Prohibition Pig has smoked Yankee-Southern barbecue low and slow on Waterbury's Main Street -- with a house brewery pouring out back.

Family-owned since 1974, Cold Hollow presses cider in a historic dairy barn, fries cider donuts daily, and ships Vermont nationwide from Waterbury Center.

Built in 1859 and on the National Register of Historic Places, Wilder Farm is a nine-bedroom whole-house rental minutes from Sugarbush and Mad River Glen.

Five bedrooms, four baths, and eight private acres minutes from Sugarbush -- Upper Pines Lodge is Warren's answer to the big family ski week.

The Waitsfield brewery behind Sip of Sunshine pairs obsessively fresh IPAs with a B-Corp conscience -- taste the Sunshine Family where it is brewed.

Since 1985, American Flatbread has baked its rustic pizzas in a wood-fired earthen oven at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield -- the original outpost of a Vermont institution.

From 19th-century turnip farm to the oldest Nordic ski center in America, this 700-acre lakeside resort in Chittenden has been reinventing the Vermont getaway for generations.

What began in 1993 as one woman's side catering business became the Northeast Kingdom's most cherished dining room, with a signature lobster-and-seafood Holy Basil and lines out the door.

At 306 feet and four and a half inches, this 1891 limestone obelisk is the tallest man-made structure in Vermont, commemorating the 1777 battle that changed the Revolutionary War.

Since 1938, the Latchis Memorial Building has stood as one of Vermont's only Art Deco landmarks, its Greek-deity murals and terrazzo floors making a night at the movies feel like an occasion.

Founded in 1983 on a dare between a restaurateur and his pastry chef, this family-owned chocolatier's Pine Street flagship is part factory, part café, and entirely Burlington.

Operating since 1936 on all-volunteer labor, Northeast Slopes in East Corinth is one of the oldest rope-tow ski areas in America — and the sport's most improbable survivor.

An Emmons-family working farm since 1908 with a reservation-only restaurant, a stocked farm market, and a four-mile scenic drive that is half the experience.

A mile-long, 165-foot-deep glacial gorge, a 1911 steel arch bridge, and 688 acres of trails, campsites, and river — Quechee State Park is the Upper Valley's signature natural wonder.

A Laurance Rockefeller-built landmark anchoring what many call the prettiest small town in America — with a working organic farm, a landmark spa, and golf minutes from the Green.

Welcoming guests since 1827, the Middlebury Inn anchors historic downtown Middlebury, a short drive from the Middlebury College Snow Bowl.

Robert Todd Lincoln's 1905 Georgian Revival estate in Manchester blends presidential history, formal gardens, and a working farm on one sweeping hillside.

A national treasure on West Main Street, Dot's Restaurant has fed Wilmington since the early 1980s, and after Tropical Storm Irene tried to take it, the town fought back.

From the first snowmaking system in ski history to the X Games, Mount Snow in West Dover has been southern Vermont's beating ski heart since 1954.

Independently owned, fiercely steep, and blissfully uncrowded, Magic Mountain in Londonderry is the ski purist's answer to the mega-resort era.

Opened in 1961 on southern Vermont's highest peak, Stratton was the first major resort to welcome snowboarding and hosted the U.S. Open for nearly three decades.

Founded in 1936 by a brewing heir and celebrating its 90th season in 2026–27, southern Vermont's sun-drenched Bromley Mountain remains the region's friendliest family ski hill.

Built in 1913 as The Playhouse and restored to its Victorian-opera-house glory in 2000, Rutland's Paramount Theatre hosts concerts, comedy, and Broadway tours at 30 Center Street.

A third-generation family orchard on Route 4 in Mendon, 15 minutes from Killington, with pick-your-own apples in fall, a daily bakery of pies and turnovers, a year-round country store, farm animals, a...

The largest ski area in the eastern U.S. sprawls across six peaks and 1,509 acres of Vermont's Green Mountains, with the biggest vertical drop in New England.

No high-speed lifts, no condos — just a rope tow, a T-bar, and the most decorated family in American ski racing. Cochran's is the nation's first nonprofit ski area, and it's still teaching kids to ski...

Launched in a Johnson basement in 1997, Rock Art survived the microbrew bust, stared down Monster Energy, and became Vermont's first fully solar-powered brewery.

The only Ben & Jerry's factory open to the public churns out 350,000-plus pints a day in Waterbury — and the 30-minute tour, Flavor Graveyard and free sample make it Vermont's sweetest pilgrimage.

Hand-crafted pizzas, Vermont-made spirits, and quality-beef burgers anchor this Waitsfield bar and grill at the junction of VT-100 and VT-17 — the valley's go-to for après-ski comfort food and a prope...

Opened on Christmas Day 1958, Sugarbush has grown into the Northeast's third-largest ski area — two distinct mountains, 111 trails, and a Mad River Valley soul that mega-resorts can't copy.

More night skiing than any other Vermont resort, a founding family back at the helm, and sixty seasons of teaching locals to ski: Bolton Valley is the Green Mountains' best-kept secret.

No corporate polish, no crowds, and 53 trails of honest Vermont skiing: Burke Mountain is back in local hands and writing its next chapter in East Burke.

More snow than anywhere else in the East, Vermont's only aerial tramway, and an indoor water park for the days the powder wins: Jay Peak is the Northeast Kingdom's cold, white crown.

Three mountains, one family-first philosophy, and a notch in the road with a smuggling past: Smugglers' Notch Resort is northern Vermont's great all-ages playground.

Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak, towers over one of New England's most storied ski resorts and a village that practically invented the American ski town. Here's why Stowe belongs at the center...

A whole-house Airbnb in Cavendish with 15 acres, Black River frontage, room for the whole crew, and a 9-minute drive to Okemo.

Vermont's oldest family-owned ski shop has been outfitting Okemo skiers since 1967. Meet the Tofferi family, the boot fitters people drive two hours to see, and find out why pre-season is the smartest...

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