Staytripper, September 2020
Rustic Recreation at Quimby Country Resort; How to Host an Outdoor Adventure Dinner; Cast Away on a Fly-Fishing Tour in Stowe
Outdoor Adventures: Mountain Biking, Disc Golf and Yoga by the Lake
Slate Valley Trails Endless Brook, 975 Endless Brook Rd., Poultney (across from the Lewis Deane Nature Preserve) Fairgrounds, 131 Town Farm Rd., Poultney For mountain bikers living in northern Vermont, it’s easy to fall into a rut of pedaling the same logging roads and single tracks week after week. But riders looking to broaden their…
Paddling Advice From the Authors of a Lake Champlain Kayaking Guide
Catherine Frank and Margaret Holden set out on a lark to kayak around the Champlain Islands in 2003. One paddle stroke led to another until that first trip ultimately became a 650-mile circumnavigation of Lake Champlain. The women’s expeditions over nearly six years informed their 2009 book, A Kayaker’s Guide to Lake Champlain, which was…
Find Family Fun and Rustic R&R at Vermont’s Quimby Country Resort
Even in the Northeast Kingdom, you can’t get much more northeast than Quimby Country. The rustic resort in the tiny unincorporated township of Averill (population 25) is sandwiched between Forest Lake and Big Averill Lake. It’s also minutes from Vermont’s borders with both Canada and New Hampshire. In other words, it’s smack in the middle…
Sas Stewart on How to Plan Your Own Vermont ‘Adventure Dinner’
Guests at Sas Stewart’s Adventure Dinners don’t know where they’re going until 24 hours ahead of time, when she texts everyone the secret location. Over the last several years, they have found themselves at a marina boarding a boat for a fire-cooked feast on a private island, navigating their way through a 1,000-hemlock maze to…
Vermonting: Close-to-Home Travel Itineraries for the Mad River Valley, Glover and Upper Valley
Every week through mid-October, Seven Days presents “Vermonting,” a column of curated excursions in all corners of our great (but not so large) state. Indeed, Vermont’s diminutive size makes a multitude of short trips accessible, whether for a few hours, an overnight or a longer getaway. Find three sample itineraries below, and read more detailed…
Angling for Insight on a Vermont Fly-Fishing Tour
At a time when much of life takes place in the digital space, Stephanie Olsen, a fishing guide at Stowe’s Fly Rod Shop, offers exclusively lived experiences in nature. “My office is the river,” she said. “Isn’t that awesome?” In August, I took a tour of her “office” on a fly-fishing excursion. Opened in 1971,…
Embrace the State With Vermont’s ‘Staytripper’
In a typical year, summer is the busiest season for Vermont’s tourism industry — and fall foliage attracts visitors to our Green Mountains from across the globe. But as we bridge these two seasons in 2020, nothing is normal. Due to the pandemic, interstate as well as international travel has slowed, and Vermont vacations look…
