Winter Fun We offer some of the best snowmobiling in the Northeast with the trail starting right at your front door! Connectors are available to New Hampshire and Canada so you can spend countless hours riding and enjoying the scenic beauty while gliding comfortably along groomed trails. If you are not a snowmobile enthusiast, come and enjoy some of the best hard-water trout fishing on Big Averill, Little Averill and Lake Wallace. Norton Pond also offers some of the largest northern pike in the state. We are also situated within an hours drive of The Balsams 4-star Ski Resort in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire and Burke Mountain in Burke, Vermont. If you enjoy winter, you will fall in love with Pure Country.
Spring Flings Never underestimate the lure of spring here in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Although the locals often give spring the unaffectionate term of "mud season," it doesn't mean you can't get out and have some fun! The fish start biting, the antique shops begin to open up, and the nearby ski areas boasts that you can often ski and mountain bike in the same day there in the spring. Off-season lodging rates are usually in effect in the spring, so check it out!
Summer RollsThe timeless summers of childhood are alive and well in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. From swimming holes and ice cream parlors, to outdoor concerts and mountain hikes, the long days of summertime are a perfect frame to the Northeast Kingdom's relaxed pace of life. You won't find slickly packaged recreation here. Our brand of fun is natural, real and pure. Which is why families feel free to spend a few days or a few weeks tucked away in our area. Enjoy our pristine lakes, pond, brooks and streams. Hike one of the areas many old logging trails that have been here many years. Visit one of areas antique shops and find that special item you have spent many years looking for or just visit and walk though one of our areas small villages. You should bring your camera and lots of extra film as we have more to see and enjoy here in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont than one can image.
Fall Foliage The fact is that you really cannot see foliage from your car. I mean you can - you can gaze out the window as a rainbow of colors go shooting by at sixty miles an hour. However, in truth, as you gaze out from your car or your window seat on the tour bus, you may as well be watching Vermont's leaves on television.
Autumn in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom is unquestionably a visual delight. However, to truly experience Vermont at its finest, you need to get out of your car or bus and out into the woods. Even if the bus pulls over, or you stop your car at a scenic rest area to look out over Vermont's Green Mountains and New Hampshire's White Mountains - which by October are awash in almost every color of the rainbow - you are still enclosed on many sides by the trappings of man. The paved road, the hum of approaching vehicles, the odor of engine exhaust... each work together to diminish the experience.
Sure, you can simply come up to Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, stay at a bed and breakfast and simply "look" at the leaves; however, in doing so you will have only glazed the surface of the New England autumn experience.
Autumn in the Northeast Kingdom has more to do with crunch of leaves beneath your feet as you hike a forgotten knoll than staring at a colorful mountainside from three miles away. Experiencing autumn is being able to feel your blood move as your cheeks flush against the frosty morning air. It is surprising a family of geese as they frolic on a misty pond or exchanging glances with a nervous chipmunk as he darts from a crumbling stone wall. Autumn in the Northeast Kingdom is the rush of adrenaline you feel as flushed partridge thunders into the air just off to your side, or a moose or deer share the trail as you. In the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont you can walk a few hundred feet into the woods and be completely immersed in fiery beauty of Mother Nature's colorful fall cloak - devoid of the hum of industry, the buzz of transportation or the shouts and rumblings of your fellow members of humanity. In the woods of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom you can do something which is nearly impossible in modern urban America - you can be alone... no cell phone, no e-mails, faxes or voice mail, simply you alone with your thoughts and the leaves crunching beneath the fall of your feet.
To truly experience a New England autumn you need to take a long walk in the woods. You need to pick your own pumpkin from a graying field. You need to gather a few of the beautiful leaves and press them in your favorite book. Fall in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom is warm apple cider, cornstalks, mis-shapen gourds, horseback rides, covered bridges and quiet back roads.
Certainly fall in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom is primarily about an explosion of color however, to truly "see" these infinite hues you must get out of your car or bus and walk among them. Only by fully immersing yourself in the woods and fields of the Northeast Kingdom can you take full advantage of the almost therapeutic nature of a New England autumn. No one, not even the most desolate of souls, can stare down a quiet row of brilliant maples and not be uplifted. It is something you need to search out - something in which you may need to become lost in order to find.
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