Families enjoy a lakeside beach near the Green Mountains.
What to do: Depending on the season, there are numerous biking, skiing and hiking options in and around the Green Mountains. In summer, visit the Robert Frost-themed walking trail just off Route 125, about halfway between Ripton and the Bread Loaf Campus of Middlebury College. The gentle hike has markers printed with Frost’s poems. (See frostfriends.org for more information.) Middlebury has an array of good bookstores, including Monroe Street Books, a world-class used-book store, with more than 80,000 titles in-store, and another 50,000 off-site. The store has an extensive array of photography books and various first editions, and most of its books are searchable on the store’s Web site (1485 US-7; Tel: 802-398-2200; monroestreetbooks.com). In nearby Shelburne, the Shelburne Farms, a national historic landmark near Lake Champlain, has a sizable children’s farm, walking trails, an inn, restaurant and food store selling locally produced maple syrup (1611 Harbor Road; Tel: 802-985-8686; shelburnefarms.org).
The Pulpmill covered bridge near Middlebury.
Where to stay: The Swift House Inn has rooms with fireplaces, whirlpool tubs, private terraces and canopy beds. Rates range from $110 to $255 per night (25 Stewart Lane; Tel: 802-388-9925; swifthouseinn.com). A few miles away in East Middlebury, the Waybury Inn—best known as the setting for Bob Newhart’s 1980s sitcom, “Newhart”—has rooms beginning at $115 per night (457 East Main Street; Tel: 800-348-1810 or 802-388-4015).
Where to eat: In Middlebury, American Flatbreads at the Marble Works—in a 19th-century marble factory— has outstanding pizzas cooked in a wood-fired clay oven, which is featured prominently in the main dining room. The Bolognese pizza is superb (137 Maple Street; Tel: 802-388-3300; americanflatbread.com). The Shoreham Inn has an excellent restaurant. The menu changes frequently, but has included top-notch burgers, whole baked fish and an array of interesting desserts such as Banoffi pie, a banana, cream and toffee concoction (51 Inn Road, Shoreham; Tel: 802-897-5081; shorehaminn.com). Three Squares Cafe, in Vergennes, has numerous creative and affordable sandwiches and salads, plus a view of the pretty town square (221 Main St; Tel: 802-877-2772; threesquarescafe.com).
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