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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.  Website

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. Website

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.