Vermont

The oldest Vermont bookshop on this list opened in 1935, a few years before paperbacks took off in…

By Eliza Thornton · Oct 26

A 220-foot steamboat sits on dry land in a Vermont field. It once carried passengers, freight, and even…

By Gideon Hartwell · Oct 23

You pick the fur, choose the parts, and tuck a tiny heart inside before the stuffing goes in.…

By Clara Whitmore · Oct 20

One wooden bridge in Vermont has two full lanes side by side, and it has been carrying people…

By Daniel Mercer · Oct 19

“They still make that?” You may say it more than once here. A candy you remember from years…

By Gideon Hartwell · Oct 14

Apparently, ice cream flavors can retire. Some even get memorial markers. That should tell you pretty quickly this…

By Daniel Mercer · Oct 12

A fall postcard gets much better when a Jersey cow walks into it. Here, the barns are real.…

By Lenora Winslow · Oct 11

Your dinner table has a departure time. That already makes the evening more interesting. Once you are aboard,…

By Eliza Thornton · Oct 10

What if I told you Vermont has a place where ten Golden Retrievers can all decide you are…

By Clara Whitmore · Oct 8

If maple syrup had a second job, this would probably be it. Cold, swirled, and easy to finish…

By Lenora Winslow · Oct 7

Pull over. Seriously. This is not the kind of view you glance at through the windshield and keep…

By Daniel Mercer · Oct 6

Do me a favor: do not pick your maple syrup before you taste it. You may think you…

By Adeline Parker · Sep 29

Crossing a state line usually takes a sign. Here, it takes a 19th-century wooden bridge. Cars still roll…

By Lenora Winslow · Sep 29

The menu may know it is October before you do. One week, summer is still hanging around. Then…

By Adeline Parker · Sep 28

Some towns get a movie cameo. One Vermont town got temporarily rewritten. In 1986, cameras rolled into this…

By Adeline Parker · Sep 16

Some Vermont stories get stranger the closer you look. One old place name has been tied to a…

By Clara Whitmore · Sep 13

Vermont is the kind of place where breakfast can happen in a vintage dining car, and dinner might…

By Clara Whitmore · Aug 30

Cheese has one serious flaw: it makes confident adults forget how decisions work. Vermont understands this dairy drama…

By Adeline Parker · Jul 28

Vermont doesn’t need an ocean to make you feel like you’re somewhere else entirely. Get into one of…

By Adeline Parker · Jul 3

Most of Vermont has quietly become out of reach for regular people and this small Northeast Kingdom town…

By Cedric Vale · Jun 23

A Vermont thrift store that sends a quarter of every dollar spent directly to community food and housing…

By Iris Bellamy · Jun 21

Vermont has Christmas tree farms. Then it has this one. On a ridge in the northern part of…

By Adeline Parker · Jun 16

The building was standing before Vermont became a state. That fact alone makes the drive worth thinking about.…

By Lenora Winslow · Jun 15

Goat cheese tastes completely different when you meet the goats first. Vermont farm visits are the kind of…

By Daniel Mercer · May 18

Syrup straight from the evaporator, steam rising into cold spring air, and a dirt road that leads somewhere…

By Clara Whitmore · May 17

Real maple sugaring. Up close, hands-on, and exactly as fascinating as it sounds. Vermont does not just produce…

By Iris Bellamy · May 17

Imagine finding the version of Florida that people are always saying used to exist. Victorian facades, fishing boats…

By Gideon Hartwell · May 16

What does a village that time completely forgot look like? Picture white clapboard buildings, rocking chairs on a…

By Lenora Winslow · May 16

Apple cider donuts, fresh from the fryer, warm in the hand, gone in seconds. Vermont fall just found…

By Adeline Parker · May 15

Tiny Vermont diners are not supposed to go viral. And yet here we are. Word spread fast after…

By Eliza Thornton · May 14

What happens when an entire state refuses to move on from its most beautiful moment? Vermont happened. Nine…

By Eliza Thornton · May 11

Walking past a candy counter stacked with Wax Bottles, Sugar Babies, and Pop Rocks feels different when the…

By Eliza Thornton · May 9

A Sunday brunch where the garden sits just steps from the kitchen. Vermont does farm-to-table seriously, and this…

By Gideon Hartwell · May 9

Long drives feel a lot better when there is something this good waiting at the next stop. In…

By Iris Bellamy · Apr 27

There are states where breakfast is just breakfast, and then there is Vermont. A place where the maple…

By Eliza Thornton · Apr 26

Ever get the feeling a place is quietly daring you to notice it? That is exactly the charm…

By Gideon Hartwell · Apr 24

Vermont has been keeping secrets for centuries, and this one smells like aged cheddar and country air. Deep…

By Lenora Winslow · Apr 20

Quiet roads and pine-scented air. A main street that actually feels alive. Southern Vermont has a way of…

By Daniel Mercer · Apr 20

What if the best escape was not crowded, complicated, or hard to reach? Vermont is known for big…

By Clara Whitmore · Apr 19