Cary’s guidebook (Things to do & Places to Eat)

 Merck Forest & Farmland (Dorset) – A 3,100-acre center that has 30 miles of nature trails for hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and horseback riding, also includes a 60-acre farm (Rate – Free)  Easy Hikes (Southern Vermont) o Lake Shaftsbury (Shaftsbury) o Mile around Woods (North Bennington) o Woodford State Park (Woodford) o Emerald Lake State Park (East Dorset) o Stratton Mountain Fire Tower (Stratton) o Bromley Mountain (Bromley) o Lye Brook Falls Trailhead (Manchester) o Prospect Rock Trail (Manchester) o Red Gate Trail (Manchester) o Hike to Mount Equinox (Manchester)

 Hildene (Manchester) – Summer home of Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert a 24 room mansion on 412 acres with magnificent gardens and a working farm (Rate $18 includes a Tour)  Southern Vermont Arts Center (Manchester) – 800 19th and 20th-century American artwork in a Georgian mansion set on 100 acres (Rate $6)  Bennington Museum (Bennington) – Collection of military artifacts, early tools, oldest Stars and Stripes, Bennington Pottery, metalwork, photography, and largest public collection of Grandma Moses artist. (Rate - $10)  Bennington Battle Monument (Bennington) – 300-foot obelisk great view

 American Museum of Fly Fishing (Manchester) – The lar collection of angling art and angling related objects – more than 30,000 flies, 800 reels, 1,400 rods, practice casting outback. (Rate $5)  Robert Frost Stone House Museum (Shaftsbury) – Tells the story of the poet’s life and the nine years he spent in the house with his family (wife and four children 1920-29) on 80 acres. (Rate $6)  Mount Equinox Drive (Arlington) – Longest private toll road in the US, ascends 3,300 ft over 5.2 miles to the top of Mount Equinox to a panoramic view of the Green and Taconic mountain ranges. (Rate - $20

o Adams Family Farm (Wilmington) – Rate $7 o Bennington Center for the Arts (Bennington) – Includes Covered Bridge Museum - Rate $9 o Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (Brattleboro) – Rate $8 o Southern Vermont Natural History Museum (Wilmington) – Rate $5 o Harlow’s Sugar House (Putney) - Free https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/vermont/lye-brook-falls-trail

Bennington - Price Chopper, Walmart, Hannaford, Aldi all on Northside Dr. Manchester - Shaws, Price Chopper

Register (takes 3 days) your 5th & 6th grader to ski any mountain in Vermont for a one time fee if $20 give you a booklet of 3 free passes to each mountain. This is for any child, you do NOT have to be a VT resident. Info is here https://skivermont.com/fifth-grade-passport#FGP_Cost. https://youtu.be/Ym7HI2BOx5g