ATTRACTIONS

Northern   Central   Southern   National Parks

Northern  

Smugglers' Notch - Enjoy Smuggs summer, fall and winter family fun vacations in a beautiful mountain resort village in Vermont. Award winning children's programs, skiing, snowboarding, hiking, tennis, biking, adventures, waterslides, pools, swimming. Smuggs offers family fun activities, dining, family and adult entertainment and more.

Vermont Teddy Bear Company - The Vermont Teddy Bear Company is the largest maker of handcrafted, American-made teddy bears! Embraced by the Green Mountains, Lake Champlain & the Adirondacks, the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory colors the countryside in beautiful Shelburne. You can see how the adorable Teddy Bears are handcrafted, personalized, and are born!

Birds of Vermont Museum - Birds of Vermont Museum is a natural history museum based on wood carvings of the state's birds. Robert N. Spear has spent 18 years creating the first 172 exhibits. The Museum's displays, the surrounding bird sanctuary/nature preserve, and the bird viewing area offer an opportunity of a lifetime!

Ben & Jerry's Factory Tour - Learn how how two childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, turned a $5 correspondence course on ice cream making into a very successful business. Enjoy the sample of the day, and visit the scoop shop & gift shop.

Great Vermont Corn Maze and Science Center - Visit this 3rd generation dairy farm and lose yourself in their 5 acre cornfield maze. Explore its winding pathways and discover its hidden secrets.

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum - A National Historic Landmark, the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum has served as a center of culture and learning for over 125 years.  This free public library and art gallery, with its elaborate woodwork and spiral staircases, is home to a permanent collection of over 100 nineteenth-century paintings including Albert Bierstadt’s majestic, ” Domes of the Yosemite”.

Shelburne Museum - Shelburne Museum discover 37 buildings that are home to vast collections of fine and decorative arts, paintings, folk sculpture, weathervanes, decoys, quilts, toys, dolls, circus memorabilia and more.

Old Stone House Museum - The Old Stone House Museum is a monumental 30-room granite dormitory built in 1836 by Alexander Twilight. Today it houses the collection of the Orleans County Historical Society. Included in the exhibits are furniture, decorative arts, folk art, paintings, textiles, costumes, kitchenware, farm and trade tools.

Frog Hollow - Frog Hollow galleries exhibit a unique collection of fine traditional and contemporary Vermont craft work of over 230 juried Vermont artisans. Each gallery hosts special exhibitions year round.

Central

Sugarbush Farm - Sugarbush Farm is one of the few places in the state where you can get the real Vermont Cheddar. Also find other genuine Vermont farm products like pure maple syrup and pure Vermont honey. At the same time, it's a place where people can soak up a bit of Vermont's past, its rural life and the family farm to enjoy.

Billings Farm & Museum - Billings Farm & Museum is a living museum of Vermont's rural past, as well as a working dairy farm. The farm dates back to 1871, when owner Frederick Billings, a lawyer, railroad entrepreneur, and philanthropist began importing cows from the Isle of Jersey. His farm prospered, and today, is still a working dairy, which operates with this nationally renowned farm life museum.

Vermont Marble Exhibit - Vermont Marble Exhibit is the world's largest marble exhibit. The facility displays include marble from Vermont and around the world. The Hall of Presidents displays statuary white marble relief carving of all past U.S. Presidents.

Dakin Farm - See how time-honored skills and century-old tradition combine with the most modern smokehouse facilities to produce ham, cheddar cheese, Vermont maple syrup, and other specialty foods known the world over for their unique flavor and wholesome goodness. Visitors can view our educational Vermont maple syrup movie, tour a maple syrup cannery, tour a state-of-the-art smokehouse and more.

Rock of Ages - Rock of Ages offers a look at the 50-acre, 500-foot-deep active granite quarry. Watch as seemingly ant-like creatures cut granite far below you in the quarry depths. Their tour offers a bit of geology, cultural heritage, technology, and artistry - truly something of interest for every member of your family.

Morse Farm - Morse Farm specializes in presenting the maple process in their Sugarhouse and Woodshed theatre, live during sugaring and via humorous and educational video year round. See dioramas depicting Vermont farm life, folk art sculptures, maple trail and exciting and beautiful views.

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum - Climb aboard a 54-foot replica of Benedict Arnold's gunboat Philadelphia II, Watch craftsmen continue traditional maritime skills of boat building and blacksmithing in 18th Century working shops, Uncover the rich legacy of shipwrecks in a Nautical Archaeology Center.

American Precision Museum - The Museum preserves the heritage of the mechanical arts, celebrates the ingenuity of our mechanical forebears, and explores the effects of their work on our everyday lives. The American Precision Museum, housed in the original Robbins & Lawrence Armory, now holds the largest collection of historically significant machine tools in the nation.

Porter Music Box Museum - Porter Music Box Museum houses an exquisite collection of music boxes, including several from the collections of Louis Hoone and Ruth Bornand. Also you can view other unique items, including the extraordinary 1926 Steinway Duo-Art Aeolian reproducing piano.

Norman Rockwell Museum - Norman Rockwell Museum is nationally recognized for the collection of Norman Rockwell' s art, established 1976. Chronological display of more than 2,500 magazine covers, advertisements, calendars, and other published works shows Rockwell's development as an illustrator and links his work to the political, economic, and cultural history of the United States.

Vermont Institute of Natural Science - Located next to one of New England’s natural wonders, the Quechee Gorge, the VINS Nature Center includes a state-of-the art Raptor Exhibit, displaying one of North America’s finest collections of birds of prey. Visitors can now get eye to eye with Snowy Owls, Peregrine Falcons, Red-tailed Hawks, Bald Eagles and other birds of prey.

Parade Gallery - Parade Gallery offers a constantly evolving selection of original art, sculpture, ceramics, limited edition prints and reproductions

Southern  

Robert Todd Lincoln's Hildene - Robert Todd Lincoln's Hildene Home was the home of Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of President Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln and his family. Built in 1902, Hildene was Lincoln's summer home and would be the only house in America where all of Abraham Lincoln's descendants would eventually reside. Today you can enjoy this meticulously restored home with its elegant formal gardens.

Park-McCullough House - The Park-McCullough House, a thirty-five room Victorian Mansion, with furnishings and decor are nearly unchanged. At the front door you will find rooms with fourteen-foot ceilings opening onto a gracious central hall with a sweeping staircase. Also the gardens are just beautiful, rose gardens, horse drawn buggies, and more.

Green Mountain Railroad - Green Mountain Railroad features lots of great scenery, plenty of photo opportunities, always a relaxing ride to enjoy, vintage cars from the 30's and 50's, historical sites to visit and more! Fun for the whole family.

Bromley Adventure Zone - Bromley Adventure Zone is Vermont's largest family fun park! The park features a 25 foot climbing wall, mini golf, DévalKarts, the best exciting rides and slides, America's longest Alpine slide and much more!

Southern Vermont Arts Center - The Southern Vermont Arts Center's cultural campus includes Yester House with 10 galleries of art on view and for sale; the Wilson Museum, a stunning new facility (with gift shop) with exhibitions by nationally-recognized artists; the Boswell Botany Trail; the outdoor Sculpture Garden; the Arkell Performing Arts Pavilion; and a year round calendar of events and exhibitions.

American Museum of Fly Fishing - The Museum is dedicated to the education and research of fly fishing and its related fields, social history and conservation. See exhibits which include the fly fishing tackle of many famous Americans.

Santa's Land - Visitors can experience the Magic of Christmas throughout the Year!

The Nature Museum at Grafton - The Nature Museum exhibits are carefully designed to promote curiosity and be engaging. They communicate an understanding about local and world wide environments - their fossils, birds, mammals, minerals, habitats, botany, and more.

Adams Family Farm - Adams Family Farm is family fun! Visitors can experience sleigh rides, afternoon tea and shepherding demonstration, hayrides, a quilt and fiber arts loft, livestock barn and more.

National Parks

Appalachian National Scenic Trail - The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,167-mile (3,488 km) footpath along the ridge crests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in north Georgia. The trail traverses Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia.

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park - Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is the only national park to focus on conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America. Opened in June 1998, Vermont's first national park preserves and interprets the historic Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller property.  The Park is named for George Perkins Marsh, one of the nation's first global environmental thinkers, who grew up on the property, and for Frederick Billings, an early conservationist who established a progressive dairy farm and professionally managed forest on the former Marsh farm. Frederick Billings's granddaughter, Mary French Rockefeller, and her husband, conservationist Laurance S. Rockefeller, sustained Billings's mindful practices in forestry and farming on the property over the latter half of the 20th century. In 1983, they established the Billings Farm & Museum to continue the farm's working dairy and to interpret rural Vermont life and agricultural history.