Vermont Attractions Guide

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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.

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.

Northern

Shelburne Farms - Shelburne Farms features walking trails, children?s farmyard, nearly 400 acres of woodlands, dairy, and cheese making! Come explore and have a fun family time!

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.

Fairbank Museum And Planetarium - The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium is northern New England's premiere museum of natural history. Explore over 18,000 square feet of exhibits and 150,000 objects from nature and cultures around the world, including comprehensive collections of northern New England's birds and wildlife and a spectacular array of large mounted mammals.

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.

Southern

Bennington Museum - The Bennington Museum features objects that illustrate the social, cultural, and historical development of New England, particularly of Vermont and the Bennington region.

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's Thrill Zone is Vermont's Sun & Fun Park! The park features a 25 foot climbing wall, mini golf, a giant swing, the best exciting rides and slides, America's longest Alpine slide and much more!

Olallie Daylily Gardens - Olallie Daylily Gardens offers six-acre fields, brim full with daylilies, and the farm also harbors other spectacular natural beauty. We have natural grass paths, which meander through the beautiful gardens. Also they maintain over four hundred high bush blueberries and blackberries that are delicious!

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.