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Our Seasons
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 Rolls
The 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, misshapen 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.
Did You Know?
The first Boone and Crocket deer in Vermont was taken here in Canaan
in 1986 on Canaan Hill.
The record stream fish caught in 1983 in Canaan on the Connecticut River
was weighted on our certified scales.
Because we are so close to New Hampshire and Maine, we get hunters and
fishermen from a very wide area.
Sportsmen can stay with us and hunt or fish in excellent lakes, rivers
and ponds within a twenty mile radius.
Hunters can walk to the woods from their rooms. New Hampshire, hunters
need to travel a short distance to their hunting grounds.
There is an abundance of wildlife including rabbit, partridge, grouse,
and some pheasants.
Oh yes, we do have deer and moose also that are easily seen every day.