$159+ Cheap flights to Vermont

What is good to know if travelling to Vermont?

• The Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory in Waterbury offers guided tours. The tour starts with a seven-minute “moovie” in the Cow Over The Moon Theater.
• Vermont is famous for its farms and local produce can be picked up at farmers’ markets around the state.
• Sugarbush Farm in Woodstock, VT, and the Luce family are famous for their pure maple syrup. Enjoy a free sample, explore the farm attractions, a nature trail and pick up some delicacies in the 1850’s farm house gift shop.
• There are also Maple Ridge Sheep Farm in Braintree, the first to import Shetland sheep into the U.S., and Orb Weaver Farm in New Haven where they make cheese. You can tour the barn, cheese-making facilities and cheese cave before tasting Orb Weaver’s Vermont farmhouse cheese; and Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, on the shores of Lake Champlain.
• Explore the Long Trail, part of the Appalachian Trail along the Green Mountains from Massachusetts to Canada.
• Vermont has more than 100 covered bridges. Middlebury’s Pulp Mill Bridge dates from 1820 and is the oldest in the state.
• Hope Cemetery in Barre dates back to 1895 and boasts an amazing array of memorials on its 65 acres. Some memorials are breathtaking such as the hand-carved Pieta from the original Michelangelo for Palmisano, an arm chair for Bettini, and a mausoleum with eight crypts for the Vanetti family.