Airlines In Usa - Fall Foliage Scenic Drive - Central Vermont Area

This fall foliage scenic drive in Central Vermont offers some of the best views in the Green Mountain National Forest.

But it's no surprise you'll experience some magnificent fall foliage views all along this scenic drive, there's a whole bunch of surprises on the way. Before heading north on Route 100 and 100B back to Montpelier, it follows mostly Route 12 south from Montpelier to Woodstock. This scenic drive is a loop tour of about 150 miles.

Although it's possible to do the drive in one day and forgo many of the attractions and rambles suggested, the tour is best done over the course of a weekend or several days.

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Montpelier is 182 miles from Boston and 198 miles from Hartford. Montpelier can be easily reached from Interstate 89. A small city on the northern fringe of central Vermont, start from Montpelier.

This is unique in New England and definitely worth taking the camera out to capture. As you look through one to other, but two of them in Northfield Falls can be seen at once, vermont has some of the finest examples of covered bridges anywhere in New England. Northfield Falls has four covered bridges and the famous Falls General Store. Take Route 12 out of Montpelier and head south to Northfield Falls.

Continue on Route 12 making your way to Bethel.

It's open 8:00am - 3:00pm daily. The hatchery focuses on restoring Atlantic Salmon to the Connecticut River. Could this be why it's home to the White River National Fish Hatchery? Bethel is one of those Vermont towns that's a natural part of the scenery.

From Bethel you'll continue your last piece of the southern route to Woodstock.

Woodstock itself is one of those picture-perfect Vermont villages that's fun just to stroll around checking out the boutiques and restaurants. And Quechee Gorge, including Billings Farm and Museum, the Woodstock area offers a number of attractions.

And a museum depicting farm life in the late 1800s, and today it's a working farm, the Billings Farm and Museum was established in 1871.

Be sure to walk to the picnic area overlooking the falls. It's a chance to stretch the legs and admire the splendid scenery, but at a mile long and plenty of hiking and walking trails on offer, not quite as big a hole in the ground as in Arizona. Quechee Gorge is Vermont's little Grand Canyon.

You can ride the Gondola daily from September 24 - October 10th. If it's running take the K1-Gondola from base. There's very few better places to appreciate the fall foliage than at the top of Killington Peak. 200' offers spectacular views from the summit, and at over 4. Killington is a world famous ski area that covers six mountains. The next 20 miles of the scenic drive takes you cross country on Route 4 to Killington.

Just be sure to make reservations during the peak fall foliage season. And with the beautiful town of Rutland close-by plenty of lodging if you decide to linger overnight, killington is about the half-way point in this tour.

And Waitsfield as you cover perhaps the most scenic views and diverse terrain you'll see on this drive, granville, hancock, you'll pass through the towns of Pittsfield. The next section of the tour follows Route 100 as it borders the Green Mountain National Forest.

But especially during fall foliage season when the colors dazzle, the trail to the falls is an easy hike and offers marvelous views anytime of the year. Just North of Hancock and close to Route100 on Route 125 is Texas Falls.

And worth taking slow and easy, the drive from Hancock towards the falls is a two-lane winding road that passes through a seven mile stretch of untouched wilderness. The larger of the two waterfalls is Moss Glen Falls just north of Granville a few miles up from Hancock.

And you'll take 100B north to Middlesex and then join Interstate 89 for the quick hop back into Montpelier, route 100B connects with Route 100 just south of Moretown village. The final leg of this central Vermont scenic drive from Granville to Middlesex and back to Montpelier continues to provide startling scenery and great photo opportunities.

Take this tour and you'll understand why. But my personal favorite in Vermont is the fall. And the famous mud season, winter, fall, summer, vermonters quip the state really has five seasons - spring.