6 Dog-Approved Adventures to Check off your Summer Bucket List
Adventures in southern Vermont are more fun with your furry family member. Here’s our top picks, specially approved by Stratton dogs.
6 SoVT Scenic Swimming Holes You Have to See This Summer
Luckily, when the weather’s too hot to earn the scenic views via hike, there’s swimming holes waiting for you to kick-back, relax and enjoy the view.
Find your Next Hidden Treasure at The Vermont Country Store
Featured image: The Vermont Country Store on Facebook. In two quaint southern Vermont towns sits an oasis of gifts, knick-knacks, games, food, home items and all the things you never knew you needed to have. That’s right, we’re talking about the Vermont Country Store. With two locations in Weston and Rockingham Vermont, this…
Pick Apples at this Off-the-Grid Orchard
In search for the best fall activities in southern Vermont, we found ourselves in East Dorset at Mad Tom Orchard. On our way to pick our own apples, excitement buzzed throughout the car in anticipation to embrace the cool, crisp fall air and gather fresh produce from the Vermont trees. Little did…
Venture Vermont: Stratton Adventures Paintball & ATV Tours
Hike, bike, zip-line, fly. These are just a few of the adventures we have gone on this summer for Venture Vermont. This time, we kept the fun right at the base of the mountain with Stratton Adventures ATV Tours & Paintball. Being a first timer for both activities, I was a bit…
Ride on Horseback at this Green Mountain Oasis
An Adventure a Day Keeps the Doctor Away While his first escapade was a four-year bicycle journey around the world, it’s the joy of “Microadventures,” quick outings that offer “something different, something exciting,” that Alastair Humphrey‘s touts in his book. “Adventure is everywhere, every day, and it is up to us to…
Make your Own China at this Glass Blowing Factory
I have found that in Vermont, there are endless opportunities to do something you’ve never done before. While I would never consider myself an artist, I have always had a few creative bones in my body. However, glass blowing has always been one of those things I never thought I could actually do. To…
Explore the Appalachian Trail & Camp at this Hidden Gem
Have you ever felt like you just needed to unplug? These days our culture is so clogged with technology. Emails literally at our fingertips, photos and snapchats of who’s doing what, where they went to dinner, how cute their dog is. While these are all great advances in the world we live…
Hike to this Secluded Locations for the Best Green Mountain Views
Imagine stepping foot on the exact spot Benton MacKaye conceived the idea of the Appalachian Trail, upon which thousands of hikers trek from Georgia to Maine each year. Well, when you arrive at the Stratton Mountain fire tower, you will be standing on on that exact spot. Built in 1921 and now…
Venture Vermont: Cycling the Green Mountains
There are many reasons to ride a bike: For sport and competition, recreation and fun, health and wellness, for a cause or a loved one. There’s also a lifestyle and culture to identify with, one of coffee, beer and good meals to nourish before and replenish after long days in the saddle. …