Photos: Niranjan Arminius / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Kenneth C. Zirkel / CC BY 4.0
June through foliage is the window. Mud season closes the high trails every spring, some of them into early June.
8 places · Vermont
Must-seeVermont's high point at 4,393 feet, with a summit ridge shaped like a face and 200 acres of Ice Age tundra. Reach it by toll road, gondola, or the Long Trail.
Must-seeWalk or bike the 8 paved miles of lakeshore path from Oakledge Park to the Winooski River, then go three blocks uphill to Church Street for lunch. On foliage weekends the Pease and Perkins Pier lots fill by late morning.
Must-seeAn oval green, a covered bridge hauled into place by oxen, and 1870s carriage roads climbing Mount Tom, all walkable from one parking spot, with a national park about conservation stewardship at the top.
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