markinvictoria Loc: Victoria TX

Hi all...I will be visiting the central Vermont area, just south of Northfield the first week in July. Looking for photo op suggestions...landscape, scenic, water falls, mountains, covered bridges, wild life (bears, moose, birds), sunrise/sunsets, anything unique to the area. Will be staying in one place near Northfield...but will have a car to travel the area. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. At 76 probably won't do any long hikes over 1 mile.

repleo Loc: Boston

If you are coming from the south on Rte 91/89, take a short detour on Rte 4 to Quechee Gorge and Quechee Village (covered bridge, weir, glassworks). Visit the Simon Pearce glassworks and restaurant. Continue on to Woodstock - quintessential Vermont village, covered bridge etc.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Be careful.

Around thirty-five years ago, my wife and I visited the Coolidge homestead in Plymouth VT. The approach is on a four-lane highway, with a left turn where all the signs were on the left side of the road. After we made the left turn, we were stopped by the “town constable”; it turns out that we had missed a stop sign on the far right side of the road. After he wrote out a ticket, he returned to that corner to await his next victim. We did live in Western Massachusetts later for seven years, but I have never spent another penny in that state.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

You could visit Whale Dance, a sculpture right off the side of the road on Vermont 66 between I-89 and Vermont 12 in Randolph. Its diagonally across the road from the McDonald's right off Exit 4 on I-89. It's around 18 miles from Northfield, less depending how far south of Northfield you will be.

The sculpture is bronze, between 16 and 18 feet tall. If you are there on a sunny day, especially with billowing clouds, you can get a great shot. There is a small parking area near it and perhaps a one hundred foot walk or less from there to the sculpture. Other than the McDonald's and a gas station there is not much else there. It is a pretty unique thing for the area. It is by the same artist who had a similar, but smaller granite whale sculpture on I-89 in Burlington for a number of years. Some people are confused by this and assume that this is the same sculpture moved from its original location. However, this bronze sculpture was completed and installed in Randolph in 2019.

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mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Sorry for your bad experience. I have a summer home in northern Vermont and we have visiting there twice a year for the last 25 years and have never had any similar difficulties with law enforcement.

markinvictoria Loc: Victoria TX

Thanks for the info...checked out the Quechee area on line and plan to make it one of my stops.