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Shelburne Farms - Shelburne Farms features walking trails, children’s farmyard, nearly 400 acres of woodlands, dairy, and cheese making! Come explore and have a fun family time! Smugglers' Notch - Enjoy Smuggs summer, fall and winter family fun vacations in a beautiful mountain resort village in Vermont. Award winning children's programs, skiing, snowboarding, hiking, tennis, biking, adventures, waterslides, pools, swimming. Smuggs offers family fun activities, dining, family and adult entertainment and more. Vermont Teddy Bear Company - The Vermont Teddy Bear Company is the largest maker of handcrafted, American-made teddy bears! Embraced by the Green Mountains, Lake Champlain & the Adirondacks, the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory colors the countryside in beautiful Shelburne. You can see how the adorable Teddy Bears are handcrafted, personalized, and are born! Birds of Vermont Museum - Birds of Vermont Museum is a natural history museum based on wood carvings of the state's birds. Robert N. Spear has spent 18 years creating the first 172 exhibits. The Museum's displays, the surrounding bird sanctuary/nature preserve, and the bird viewing area offer an opportunity of a lifetime! Ben & Jerry's Factory Tour - Learn how how two childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, turned a $5 correspondence course on ice cream making into a very successful business. Enjoy the sample of the day, and visit the scoop shop & gift shop. Great Vermont Corn Maze and Science Center - Visit this 3rd generation dairy farm and lose yourself in their 5 acre cornfield maze. Explore its winding pathways and discover its hidden secrets. |
Fairbank Museum and Planetarium - The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium is northern New England's premiere museum of natural history. Explore over 18,000 square feet of exhibits and 150,000 objects from nature and cultures around the world, including comprehensive collections of northern New England's birds and wildlife and a spectacular array of large mounted mammals. St. Johnsbury Athenaeum - A National Historic Landmark, the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum has served as a center of culture and learning for over 125 years. This free public library and art gallery, with its elaborate woodwork and spiral staircases, is home to a permanent collection of over 100 nineteenth-century paintings including Albert Bierstadt’s majestic, ” Domes of the Yosemite”. Shelburne Museum - Shelburne Museum discover 37 buildings that are home to vast collections of fine and decorative arts, paintings, folk sculpture, weathervanes, decoys, quilts, toys, dolls, circus memorabilia and more. Old Stone House Museum - The Old Stone House Museum is a monumental 30-room granite dormitory built in 1836 by Alexander Twilight. Today it houses the collection of the Orleans County Historical Society. Included in the exhibits are furniture, decorative arts, folk art, paintings, textiles, costumes, kitchenware, farm and trade tools. Frog Hollow - Frog Hollow galleries exhibit a unique collection of fine traditional and contemporary Vermont craft work of over 230 juried Vermont artisans. Each gallery hosts special exhibitions year round. |
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