SOUTHERN
VERMONT ATTRACTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Green Mountain Flyer - Climb aboard and travel through
the scenic southern Vermont countryside in restored coaches
pulled by a vintage locomotive. Enjoy the spectacular
views of Vermont’s Green Mountains. As you travel along the
Connecticut and Williams Rivers, you’ll get a grand view of
Brockway Mills Gorge and two historic covered bridges.
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Adams Family Farm - Visit, pet and feed an assortment
of wonderful farm animals located outside in the pastures,
paddocks and barns. You'll find draft horses, Highlander cattle,
merino sheep, angora goats, ducks, geese, turkeys, and a hen
house to gather eggs in. Hug a donkey, walk a llama and play
in our famous "hay jump!" Take a tractor ride to
explore the bear caves. During the winter, take an afternoon
or evening sleigh ride pulled by Belgian draft horses, through
the maple sugar grove, up along the ridge of their mountain,
to an old log cabin for a warm up by the wood fire. Enjoy
a cup of hot chocolate and some tunes from the player piano
before coming back down the mountain.
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Lake Whitingham - Bring your bathing suit and a picnic
for a visit to Lake Whitingham, the largest lake entirely
within the state of Vermont. It is eight miles long from north
to south with over twenty-eight miles of undeveloped shoreline.
The lake was created by building the largest earthen dam,
200' tall, 1200’ across, and a quarter of a mile wide at its
base. See the "glory hole," an enormous 160' spillway
shaped like a gigantic morning glory. Boating, fishing, swimming
and picnicking are all available around the lake.
Wind Mills of Vermont - Visit what many say is surely
one of the more stunning examples of Modern design to be built
in recent times. Their profile appears to be an industrial
sculpture park, their beauty nothing short of astonishing.
The rotors of these 11 huge wind powered turbines spin at
varying speeds against a crisp blue sky, their perpetual animation
seeming to observe their own celestial rhythms. In a state
known for being preoccupied with preserving and reinventing
its homespun beauty, the turbines stand as a powerful symbol
of the potential for a plentiful but expensive renewable source
of energy. High on a ridge in the middle of Vermont's Green
Mountains view the largest commercial-scale wind farm ever
built in the eastern United States. It generates enough electricity
to power about 2,000 homes and reduces greenhouse gas emissions
by 22 million pounds a year.
The Covered Bridges of Southern Vermont - Get out your
camera and spend the day photographing the many interesting
covered bridges of this area. Vermont's covered bridges span
time and progress, linking more than the opposite banks of
a river or stream. Crossing a covered bridge is like entering
a portal of time, transporting you back to days of horse and
buggy, a time when covered bridges were seen as a necessity
rather than quaint structures. Capture the character and uniqueness
of each bridge and imagine the builders (farmers) who, without
an engineering degree, created an historic structure to last
a lifetime.
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