Middlebury/Otter Creek Valley Tour
This tour celebrates the best of all things that make Vermont so special. There are spectacular vistas of the Green and Adirondack Mountains, lush farmland, and apple orchards stretching down to the handsome shores of Lake Champlain, a superb collection of craft shops... and some of the best cycling imaginable.
Spend nights at three very special, and very different, inns. Sunday and Monday, delight in the friendly welcome of Dominic and Molly Francis at the Shoreham Inn, an authentic stagecoach stop that dates back to the 1790s. This beautifully restored inn brims over with warmth, hospitality, the aroma of good home cooking, and the comfortable aura of earlier times. Tuesday, you are a guest of Tracey and Joe Sutton (recipients of the "2003 Vermont Innkeepers of the Year" award) at their historic Waybury Inn. Frequented by Robert Frost, and, more recently, featured in The Bob Newhart Show, this 1810 former tavern and boarding house is now a classic Vermont inn with rustic ceiling beams, country comfortable rooms and what Vermont Magazine recently called "one of the most creative restaurants in the state".
The last two nights, enjoy the fine food and country elegance of Doug and Shelly Sawyer's Lilac Inn, a recently restored Greek Revival mansion now on the National Historic Register. This inn is set on one the prettiest streets in Brandon, a village recently proclaimed by Yankee magazine as one of the best places to live in all New England.
The cycling on this tour is superb. Crisscross the Otter Creek on several covered bridges, ride along the shore of Lake Champlain, and visit the University of Vermont's Morgan Horse Farm.
In Middlebury, visit the Vermont State Craft Center at Frog Hollow where more than 250 artists have created the most prestigious collection of Vermont crafts in the state. Middlebury also boasts many great shops and the lovely Middlebury College campus, and Bike Vermont often takes a tasteful tour of the local Otter Creek micro-brewery.
Your cycling takes you through apple country, where you can enjoy rolling farmland while being treated to mind-boggling views of the Adirondacks as they tower over the far side of Lake Champlain. Enjoy the vista at historic Chimney Point and have the option to ferry across Lake Champlain to visit Fort Ticonderoga, site of Ethan Allen’s most daring Revolutionary War exploit. Take a lovely ride along the shores of Lake Dunmore, and picnic on the green in Proctor where you visit the fascinating exhibits and gift shop at the Vermont Marble Museum. It’s no wonder this tour is so popular!
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