BICYCLE TOURS & MOUNTAIN BIKING

Swift House Inn Midweek Tour

Part of the pleasure of this tour is exploring the Town of Middlebury. Former grist and woolen mills now house Vermont’s best collection of sophisticated craft shops and galleries, including the Vermont State Craft Center, where you will find excellent woodworking, ceramics, furniture, jewelry, photography, prints, antiques and folk art. This is also the home of prestigious Middlebury College, with its distinctive campus, broad manicured lawns and handsome buildings fashioned from locally quarried gray stone.

Once you cycle across the Pulp Mill Covered Bridge, the town almost immediately gives way to wide fertile valleys dotted with productive dairy farms and apple orchards. The roads wind through pastures and cultivated fields, while in the distance you are treated with spectacular views of the Adirondacks and Green Mountains.

Ride past the Morgan Horse Farm; follow the Otter Creek to Vergennes (America's smallest city); and have the option of riding out to beautiful Button Bay on Lake Champlain where you visit the Maritime Museum. On another day, pass by Shard Villa, an imposing "surely haunted" Gothic mansion, picnic on the sandy beach at Lake Dunmore, and take a short hike up to the Falls of Lana. You will surely agree that this tour combines all things that make Vermont such a perfect place to bike.

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