Bennington Museum
Southern Vermont art and history range from Grandma Moses to industrial design
Places and wildlife — page 13
Browse Explore’s field guide to destinations, wildlife, art, and the natural world. Open a discovery for practical details and background.
Fleming Museum of Art
A university museum puts global art beside the history of collecting, with marble court and global collection shaping the visit
Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium
A Victorian cabinet of natural history now shares space with climate science and astronomy
Montshire Museum of Science
Hands-on science spills from galleries into a river-edge landscape, with science park and water exhibits shaping the visit
Vermont History Museum
A compact state museum builds Vermont from Abenaki homeland to civic debate
Billings Farm & Museum
A working dairy farm makes agricultural history present-tense, with dairy barn and 1890 farm house shaping the visit
American Precision Museum
Machine tools reveal how interchangeable manufacturing changed daily life
Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum
Vermont winter culture is told through equipment, mountains, and people
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Contemporary art occupies a former rail station beside active tracks, with station galleries and trackside windows shaping the visit
Bread and Puppet Museum
Gigantic puppets preserve decades of radical public theater, with museum barn and giant figures shaping the visit
Southern Vermont Arts Center
Regional art unfolds across galleries, sculpture grounds, and mountain views
Birds of Vermont Museum
Hundreds of carved birds make field marks three-dimensional, with life-size carvings and viewing window shaping the visit
Museum of Everyday Life
One ordinary object at a time becomes strange enough to reconsider, with current object and handmade displays shaping the visit
Vermont Granite Museum
Stone, immigration, design, and dangerous labor meet in a former granite shed
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Lake Champlain history is reconstructed through vessels, archaeology, and water
Old Stone House Museum & Historic Village
A four-story granite dormitory anchors a village-scale history of the Northeast Kingdom
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
A public library conceals an intact nineteenth-century art gallery, with art gallery and bierstadt canvas shaping the visit
Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home
Robert Todd Lincoln’s Georgian Revival home connects presidential legacy, Pullman labor, farming, and landscape design
President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
An unusually intact village preserves the world that formed Calvin Coolidge
Mount Independence State Historic Site
A vast Revolutionary fortification survives as archaeology beneath forest
Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site
Open fields and ridges preserve Vermont’s only Revolutionary War battle ground
Chimney Point State Historic Site
Lake Champlain narrows centuries of movement into one strategic crossing
Bennington Battle Monument
Vermont’s tallest structure marks a battle fought for supplies and momentum
President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site
A rural birthplace site examines identity, ambition, and a disputed origin story
Senator Justin S. Morrill State Historic Site
A self-designed Gothic Revival home opens onto the politics of public education
Old Constitution House State Historic Site
A tavern room witnessed Vermont declare an independent republic, with constitution room and tavern facade shaping the visit
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
One estate traces changing American ideas about forest stewardship, with mansion and carriage roads shaping the visit
Ethan Allen Homestead Museum
A surviving farmhouse complicates Vermont’s founding hero, with farmhouse and archaeology shaping the visit
Park-McCullough Historic Governor’s Mansion
A Second Empire mansion preserves wealth, technology, and family change
Rokeby Museum
Four generations of one family connect abolition, art, farming, and reform
Shelburne Farms
A model agricultural estate became a nonprofit center for sustainability education
Hope Cemetery
Granite carvers turned a working cemetery into an open-air design archive
Smugglers’ Notch State Park
A narrow mountain pass concentrates cliffs, boulders, caves, and road history
Mount Philo State Park
A short summit delivers a broad Champlain Valley lesson, with summit overlook and stone lodge shaping the visit
Grand Isle State Park
Lake Champlain camping opens onto island geology and long horizons, with rocky shore and island campground shaping the visit
Elmore State Park
A village lake rises directly into a fire-tower mountain, with lake beach and elmore mountain shaping the visit
Emerald Lake State Park
A clear green lake sits tight against a wooded valley, with green lake and wooded shore shaping the visit
Jamaica State Park
A river campground leads to a dramatic waterfall and flood history, with west river and rail trail shaping the visit
Quechee State Park
A state park gives safe access to Vermont’s deepest gorge, with gorge walls and route 4 bridge shaping the visit
Molly Stark State Park
A wooded campground climbs to a fire tower above southern Vermont, with fire tower and ccc campground shaping the visit
New Discovery State Park
Groton State Forest becomes a network of ponds, ridges, and linked trails
Waterbury Center State Park
A reservoir beach opens toward Mount Mansfield and working watershed infrastructure
Kingsland Bay State Park
A sheltered Champlain bay combines paddling, stone shoreline, and historic estate landscape
Camel’s Hump State Park
Vermont’s undeveloped alpine summit anchors a large forest reserve, with distinctive profile and alpine summit shaping the visit
Mount Ascutney State Park
A monadnock rises abruptly above the Connecticut River valley, with observation platform and summit road shaping the visit
Lake Willoughby
A deep glacial lake lies between cliffs often compared to a fjord, with deep blue lake and mount pisgah cliffs shaping the visit
Moss Glen Falls
A broad horsetail waterfall drops beside Route 100, with horsetail cascade and dark ledge shaping the visit
Texas Falls
A mountain stream twists through potholes, cascades, and polished bedrock