Vermont Green Mountain’s Attractions

Explore Vermont Green Mountain’s attractions - an unspoiled region of natural beauty, covered bridges, small farms, quiet country roads, quaint villages, pristine lakes, and best ski mountains that offer outdoor play and adventure. A four-season vacation destination, the Kingdom is a paradise for outdoor enthusiasts boasting exciting Vermont Green Mountain attractions, awesome ski resorts, spectacular fall foliage and fresh Vermont maple syrup. Whether you’re a biker, hiker, skier or snowmobiler, you’ll enjoy the gently rolling hills, the smell of fresh air, the taste of clean water and the hospitality of the local general store. Enjoy the area’s natural beauty attractions and true Vermont Green Mountain hospitality in St. Johnsbury, VT.

Vermont Adventure Travel Attractions. Winters in Vermont’s Green Mountains offer skiing, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, ice skating and breathtaking vistas of snow-capped peaks. Discover some of the best alpine and cross-country skiing in Vermont at the Jay Peak and Burke Mountain ski areas, which get more snow than in southern Vermont. Summer vacationers enjoy hiking, cycling, mountain biking, golfing, fishing, hunting, canoeing, kayaking, boating, touring museums and attractions, antique shopping, sightseeing, and diverse agricultural experiences. There are miles of peaceful roads attractions in the Kingdom for cycling and touring.

Vermont Recreation

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Vermont’s Burke Mountain. For alpine skiing and snowboarding, Burke Mountain offers a 2,000 foot vertical drop with 40 trails and glades. This incredible mountain has produced 36 Olympians and 76 US Ski team members. Burke can accommodate skiers of every experience level with 25% novice trails, 45% intermediate trails, 30% expert trails. Burke Mountain also offers 80 kilometers of cross country skiing and snowshoeing in Vermont's incredible Northeast Kingdom. All trails are at least 12 feet wide and groomed for classic as well as skating. The loops range from roughly 1 to 12 kilometers. Tickets, equipment rentals, maps, and repairs are available, along with bits of information about the area’s history, nature and the weather. This classic Vermont ski resort is one of the best cross country center attractions on the East Coast.

VAST (Vermont Association of Snow Travelers). St. Johnsbury is the premier destination for snowmobilers from around the world. Enjoy snowmobiling 5,000 miles of Vermont's magical winter highway – VAST. Crossing public and private land, VAST offers spectacular vistas of nature to snow travelers. Enjoy day trips to the Island Pond Region, Jay Peak Region, or Groton State Forest. Snowmobile rentals are available through All Around Rentals, which delivers snowmobiles to the Comfort Inn & Suites. Ride directly from the hotel’s parking lot on to the VAST trail system. Maps from the hotel’s front desk mark trail heads, snowmobile bridges, fuel, and food stops. Experience the pleasure of riding in tandem through scenic towns and villages. The 150 local snowmobile clubs in the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers (VAST) maintain the trails and issue trail passes. These St. Johnsbury attractiosns include community-based clubs welcome visitors to their weekend excursions and charity rides.

Jay Peak. The jewel of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Jay Peak Ski Resort features 64 trails and glades and seven lifts (including Vermont's only aerial tramway that transports 60 skiers), plus a vertical of 2,153 feet for radical alpine skiing. Trail attracts all types of snow enthusiasts. The ratings range from difficulty ratings are 20% novice, 40% intermediate and 40% advanced. The season averages 156 ski days and the average snowfall is 318 inches. Snowboarding is popular at Jay Peak, where the whole mountain is open to snowboarding.  [Top]

Cannon Mountain. Located in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch State Park, Cannon Mountain features 163 skiable acres with a vertical drop of 2,146 and a summit elevation of 4,186 for incredible alpine skiing. Located 30 minutes from the Comfort Inn & Suites, Cannon Mountain offers skiers a wide variety of terrain - 9 novice, 26 intermediate and 20 expert ski trails and runs - a ski school and youth programs. For more Vermont attractions, visit www.cannonmt.com.

Bretton Woods Mountain Resort. New Hampshire's largest ski area attraction, Bretton Woods Mountain Resort offers incredible alpine and Nordic skiing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. With tremendous snow coverage, excellent skiing and riding conditions, fresh snow every day, and state-of-the-art grooming, Bretton Woods is a ski utopia with 100 kilometers of trails for classical and skate skiing and showshoeing. Bretton Woods also features children's programs, lift-served cross-country and snowshoeing trails, a Ski School, and a rustic back-country cabin on Mount Stickney. Based on the grounds of the White Mountain National Forest, Bretton Woods Nordic Ski Area is one of the largest cross country areas in the East. The 100 kilometer trail network crosses open fields, meanders through woods of spruce and fir, passes beaver ponds and mountain streams, and traverses open hardwood stands. Call (866) 464-2408) or visit www.brettonwoods.com.  [Top]

Snowshoeing. Snowshoeing is a popular winter sport in Vermont and people of all ages can master the sport in minutes. Explore Vermont’s back country and the trails that traverse the Burke Mountain area, and enjoy a fun family attractions. For more information on snowshoeing go to www.burkexc.com or call the Comfort Inn & Suites for information on packages and rentals.

Dog Sledding. Experience dog sledding in the woods of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom - a region known for wild beauty and large tracts of forests. Enjoy a wintertime north woods experience with a dog team. Call Hardscrabble Mt. Sled Dog Tours at(866) 464-2408 for information on dog sledding attractions.  [Top]

Fishing. Vermont offers the greatest variety of fresh water fishing in the Northeast. From the start of trout fishing on the second Saturday in April to the cool weather of late Autumn, Vermont's waters provide fantastic opportunities for anglers. Vermont's lakes and streams are home to more than 20 popular species of game and panfish, offering fishing attractions for anglers of all tastes and experience levels. Vermont is famous for its cold-water trout and landlocked salmon fishing. Innumerable icy brooks seep down off the Green Mountains into beaver ponds and streams, providing superb angling for native brook trout, as well as larger rainbow and brown trout. Lake Willoughby, 30 minutes from the hotel, is renowned for its lake trout and salmon fishing.

Golf. Vermont may be the Green Mountain State, but it's also a state with lush green fairways. Tee off in Vermont's hills offering splendid scenery, and some of the most exhilarating golf challenges in the country. Near the hotel are two golf course attractions, including St. Johnsbury Country Club. Discounts are available for golfers choosing to play more than one round per day. Vermont suits golfers - and their non-golfing families - to a tee. After a round, you're surrounded by all the other fun things there are to do in the Kingdom. Golf packages are available on a limited basis for two, three or four night stays at the Comfort Inn & Suites.  [Top]

Boating. Deep, clear, glacially formed bodies of water in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom invite wildlife and its viewers. Enjoy boating on many of the state's 808 lakes and ponds. Lake Willoughby, located 30 minutes from the hotel, is breathtaking and one of the Kingdom's best kept secret attractions in Vermont.

Bird Watching. Because of Vermont's variety of landscape, elevation and seasons, few places in the world have as many different birds in so compact an area. Great horned owls are already sitting on their nests in March and the last of the great hawk migrations can be seen from Vermont peaks in November. Once you've enjoyed viewing Vermont's birds from a mountain peak, from a picnic blanket in an open field, along a mountain stream and on a hiking trail, the poetry will be your own.  [Top]

Vermont Farms. No trip to Vermont would be complete without a visit to Vermont’s dairy farms. With 1,700 dairy farms and numerous maple farms, flower farms, and cattle farms, visitor will realize the pride Vermont farmers have in their products and contribution to the Vermont landscape they manage. Take the family to one of Vermont’s beautiful farms and "pick your-own" strawberries, blueberries or apples in season.

Mountain Biking. Mountain biking is one of Vermont's popular summer sports attractions. Vermont’s rolling hills and mountains offer a variety of terrain, with vast forests providing a beautiful backdrop to a biking adventure. Kingdom Trails offer a spectacular 100-mile complex of off-road trails and single track and the highest ratio of moose to mountain bikers in the US! Mountain bikers enjoy the pastoral and wild setting in the rolling hills of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom while traversing the challenging network of quiet, picturesque recreational trails and paths. Trek miles of winding single track, long-forgotten cart roads, broad fire roads, and scenic country roads for challenging and panoramic biking adventures.  [Top]

Christmas Tree Farms. Visit a Vermont Christmas Tree Farm and choose your own tree. Have it shipped at holiday time or make an early December return to Vermont and start a family tradition to cut down the tree. Call the hotel for details on our Christmas Tree Package.

Northeast Kingdom Trails. Vermont's largest recreational trail system, this 100-mile trail network invites mountain biking, trail running, hiking, walking, nature study, cross-country skiing, back-country skiing, and snowshoeing. In the rolling hills of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom lies an extensive network of quiet, scenic recreational trails and attractions. Mile after mile of winding singletrack, long-forgotten logging roads, broad fire roads and scenic country roads beg for exploration on foot, bicycle, skis, or snowshoes.  [Top]

Vermont Shopping

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Visit the quaint downtown districts of St. Johnsbury, Vermont or Littleton, New Hampshire for exceptional shopping experiences.

The world renowned creamery is nestled on a hillside in one of Vermont's smallest towns. From the Visitors' Center, you can watch an informative video and take a one-hour walking tour into the working plant. See how they transform milk from local farms into the "Best Cheddar in the World,” awarded at the 22nd Biennial World Championship Cheese Contest. Nibble on all the cheeses and sample other Vermont products. Stock up on Factory Specials!

Chutter’s General Store. Chutter’s General Store is home to the "World's Longest Candy Counter" and is recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records! Located in Littleton, NH since 1995, their mission is to bring back the good old days in a brand-new way.

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. A national historic landmark, the Athenaeum has served as a center of culture and learning for 130 years. This free public library and art gallery is home to a permanent collection of 19th-century paintings including Albert Bierstadt's majestic "Domes of the Yosemite."

Fairbanks Museum. The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium is northern New England's premiere museum of natural history. Founded in 1889 by St. Johnsbury industrialist Franklin Fairbanks, the award-winning museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 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. Head for the stars in Vermont's only public planetarium, or catch the latest forecast at the Northern New England Weather Center. Step into an awe-inspiring exhibition hall that blends the flavor of the 19th century with 21st century program.  [Top]

Vermont’s Covered Bridges. Vermont has more covered bridges for its size than any other state. More than 100 of them dot the landscape, ranging from 20-foot spans serving single homesteads to giants like the 465-foot Connecticut River crossing that Windsor, Vermont shares with Cornish, New Hampshire. As with Vermont life, diversity rules to the delight of people who take on the challenge of visiting all the bridges - some in bustling villages and others in idyllic pastoral settings. Why were the bridges covered? Because dry wood lasts and wet wood rots.

Maple Grove Maple Museum and Factory. The Maple Grove Maple Museum and Factory - "The Maple Center of the World” - is one of Vermont's largest tourist attractions, visited by over 100,000 people annually. See sap boiling in the old sugar house, interesting museum exhibits, a color video of sap gathering, and tour the world's largest maple candy factory. The Maple Cabin Gift Shop features Vermont handcrafts, Vermont cheese, and fine Maple Grove Products.  [Top]

The Basin. At the base of a beautiful waterfall is a granite “pothole” of 20 feet in diameter. This granite was believed to have been eroded 15,000 years ago while the North American ice sheet was melting and has been smoothed by small stones and sand whirled around by the Pemigewasset River in Vermont.

Flume Gorge. One of Franconia Notch's geological wonders, Flume Gorge offers a spectacular 2-mile walk through a natural chasm on wide gravel paths and wooden walkway attractions in Vermont. Travel through covered bridges, past waterfalls and through an 800-foot long gorge with its sheer 90 foot walls. Scenic pools, glacial boulders and mountain views abound.  [Top]

Cannon Mountain Aerial Tram. The first passenger aerial tramway in North America began operation on this site in 1938. Almost 7 million passengers were carried to the top by the first tram. Tram II was opened in 1980, and today you can take a scenic 7.5-minute ride in one of the two enclosed cable cars to the 4,200-foot summit of Cannon Mountain and enjoy panoramic views of the distant valleys and mountains. Each tram car has a capacity of 80 persons and ascends 2,022 feet vertically over a horizontal distance of more than one mile. Walking trails to a summit observation tower leave from the tram station.

Jay Peak Aerial Tram. Ride to the top of Vermont via Vermont's only aerial tramway. Enjoy a breathtaking view of four states and Canada from the 4,000 foot summit. The Aerial Tramway operates from July 1 to September 4, from 10 AM - 4 PM. Tickets can be purchased in the Pizza Parlor under the Tram dock.  [Top]

Cold Hollow Cider Mill. You and your family will apple-solutely love New England's most famous cider mill. Watch cider making year round and enjoy the free samples.

Ben & Jerry's. Nestled in the heart of the Green Mountains, this famous ice cream factory sits on a rolling pasture overlooking the Worchester Range, just north of the small town of Waterbury. The guided factory tour is fun and educational for all ages. Guests will learn about the ice cream production process and how the Company's three-part mission statement is incorporated into day-to-day business decisions.  [Top]

Santa's Village. For a merry day of festivities and magic, come to Santa's Village! At Santa's summer home, you'll meet Santa, his elves, and pet his reindeer. There are fun-filled shows, delicious goodies to eat, places to shop and play, and exciting rides. Splash down the Yule Log Flume, ride Rudy's Rapid Transit, a thrilling rollercoaster, and the Christmas Ferris Wheel, go up and down Reindeer Carousel or fly away on Santa's Skyway Sleigh, a unique monorail adventure. Steer your way to fun on the Old Time Car Ride, cool off on Santa's Red Hot Firehouse Racers, or have a hot time on the Himalaya Ride. Catch the Jingle Bell Junction Train that takes you around the Village. You never know who you'll bump into on Santa's Smackers Bumper Cars or who you'll mix it up with on the Pixie Mix.

Vermont’s Loon's Scenic Summit Skyride. Enjoy unlimited rides aboard the scenic gondola skyride to the summit of Loon Mountain. At the summit, take time to climb the Observation Tower for magnificent views of the surrounding mountains and valley. Explore glacial caves and the relaxing nature walk. Visit with Wajoid, the Mountain Man, at his summit cabin. Shop in the Nature's Bounty Gift Shop or enjoy a meal on the deck of the Summit Cafe overlooking Loon Pond.  [Top]

Clark's Trading Post. Trained bear shows, antique Americana, steam trains, Wolfman and the Grimmy Family Circus are part of this unique attraction. Step back in time as you enter the mysterious Tuttle House, Avery's Garage, the photo parlor, Fire Station, and Mystical Mansion. Sounds of antique music machines fill the air as you enter the museums and ice cream parlor. Enjoy rides on the train and bumper boats.

Hobo Railroad. All aboard for a 15-mile round trip excursion lasting approximately an hour and a half. The train runs through a picturesque, woodsy setting, along the Pemigewasset River in restored vintage coaches. Most train rides are narrated. Lunch is available at an additional charge.

Whales Tale. Enjoy the sites and sounds of the ocean in the heart of the White Mountains. Whale Tale is the region’s only full-sized waterpark. Experience ocean-sized breakers in the huge wave pool or relax in the Lazy River. For faster paced activity, try one of their six thrilling water slides. Children will love Whale Harbor and Orca Park Play Island.  [Top]