Vermont Mountains

Vermont Mountains Travel Guide

Vermont is an entire state of hidden treasures. Highways are not marred with billboards, and on some roads, cows still stop traffic twice a day, en route to and from the pasture. In spring, sap boils in sugarhouses, some built generations ago. Yet up the road, a chef trained at the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier might use the maple syrup to glaze a pork tenderloin.

It's the landscape that attracts people to Vermont. The rolling hills belie the rugged terrain underneath the green canopy of forest growth. During the heyday of the wool industry in the mid-1800s, sheep farming denuded 85% of the landscape. With railroads opening up the West after the Civil War, farming moved to the more profitable plain states, and the landscape began reclaiming itself.