Village must be one of the most lyrical words in our language. SEE MORE: The Ultimate Road Trip for Fall Foliage, Seafood, Cider Donuts, and More Peacham | The Most Beautiful Places in Vermont Photo Credit : User Submitted/Christine Hanaford Peacham
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Running nearly 30 miles through the mountains from Middlebury to Hancock, the Middlebury Gap Road (Route 125) rises and dips and twists its way past waterfalls and valley views framed by mountains that make drivers jealous of their passengers, who can simply take it all in. OK, on this drive it’s perfectly fine to stop and take a breath, as in: It’s breathtaking. SEE MORE: Late Fall Weekend in Burlington, Vermont
Another perfect Lake Champlain sunset viewing? From the comfort of an Adirondack chair on the lawn at the historic Shelburne Inn at Shelburne Farms. For an equally memorable experience, get a table at Splash at the Burlington Boat House, where it’s impossible (short of jumping into the water) to get a more intimate look at the lake than here, on a floating dock order something cold, and see what I mean about beauty sneaking up on you. The Adirondacks of New York state rise to the west, and to sit on a bench at Battery Park - with the seagulls circling above, sailboats gliding over the sparkling water, the sound of waves rippling against the banks - makes sunset an occasion each day. Vermont’s great lake washes the shores of Burlington, a small city that belongs on every visitor’s bucket list for New England. SEE MORE: Hildene | The Lincoln Family Summer Home Sunset on Lake Champlain, seen from the Shelburne Inn at Shelburne Farms | The Most Beautiful Places in Vermont Photo Credit : Aimee Tucker Sunset on Lake Champlain
In summer you can stroll the gardens, and perhaps reflect on how the great figures of American history are not all that far removed from our lives today. This summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, was built at the beginning of the 20th century and remained with Lincoln heirs until 1975. Sometimes beauty is enhanced by the realization you are standing in a place with echoes of precious history. Hildene | The Most Beautiful Places in Vermont Photo Credit : Courtesy of Hildene Hildene, Manchester The gorge’s natural beauty is enhanced for some tourists by the shopping village just a stone’s throw away, built up with the kinds of nifty shops in which you can while away an afternoon. When my boys were little, 6 or 7 years old, we kept watch as they easily maneuvered to the flat rocks below where we followed, picnic in tow. The gorge was carved thousands of years ago by retreating glaciers from the Ottauquechee River, which flows below. When you go searching for sheer beauty, it’s best to take it as it comes, and small is beautiful. On Route 4, less than eight miles east of the town jewel of Woodstock, you come to what people like to call “Vermont’s Little Grand Canyon.” Well, OK - if by little you mean really little. Quechee Gorge | The Most Beautiful Places in Vermont Photo Credit : Aimee Tucker Quechee Gorge, Quechee Mount Pisgah and Mount Hor frame the glacier-carved waters - and if you come away thinking you’ve been swimming or hiking by a Norwegian fjord, you’ll not be the first. The lake and its surroundings has been called the “Lucerne of America” however, the world has long known of that tourist-filled city in the Swiss mountains, and so few know of this second-deepest lake in Vermont, its water cold and clear enough to see fish several feet beneath the surface. They also know that no lake in the state shimmers like Willoughby. A mix of beauty and grit, its villages are filled with people who work hard, love the outdoors, embrace winter as a time to snowmobile and ski, who know that fall is its Mardi Gras, when the outside world discovers that their kingdom truly shines. Vermonters are quick to tout the Northeast Kingdom as the truest Vermont.
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