Haha! Love it!

No, I’ve never stayed. I’m a native that lives sort of in the area, though my family is further down the state. But for the most part people who visit in Stowe or Waterbury don’t have as much of a strict budget, and the Lodge meets those standards.

ETA: There *are* a few other places you could look into, but they aren’t Stowe or Woodstock. Look up Shelburne Farms, for example. It’s about twenty outside of Burlington, but not open year-round.

The Grafton Inn is full on rural VT, if that’s what you’re looking for. Or The Vermont Inn.

Always the classic Trapp Family Lodge, built and owned by the famous Von Trapp family!

I’ve been wondering what‘s going to happen with these buyers when the real VT winter hits. Spring, beautiful. Summer? Gorgeous. Fall, omg. But it’s one thing to spend a week at a ski lodge and quite another to endure endless months of digging your car out in the dark in -10 degrees only to find the gas froze in your tank when you try to head out to work. Months and months and months of bitter cold and no sunlight.
I‘m not trying to be snarky here. The Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsy settled in Vermont when he fled for his life, because the hard winters here fondly reminded him of RUSSIA. It’s a test of endurance and I’m skeptical that all the new buyers fully understood what they were buying into.

I’m living in the Chittenden area! Major issues with college kids who are still new to driving and come from states where you need to shove your way onto the highway.I know VT drivers aren’t perfect, and a lot of people looove to blast their way down backroads where we know there aren’t any speed traps. But I wrote the post mainly because I’ve been seeing a few plates get confused when traffic stops and pulls over for emergency vehicles. Some places do the same; some don’t.

The Burlington area suuuuuucks for driving across the board. But there are still some sleepy towns that are a lot calmer overall.

Ohhh, a troll. Okay. Never mind! We don’t feed those here.

No, tourists are not all the same. When we complain about hating tourists, the ones in OPs post are the ones we’re talking about.

They go Mad Max on the roads, feel entitled to absolutely everything (EV. RY. THING.), treat the locals like shit and then stand in the middle of traffic to take pictures. (Entitled and dangerous.)

We have terms for people who come up to leaf-peep and drive like they think they’re on a NASCAR track, depending on the license plate. That guy who just shot up your ass and stays bumper to bumper with nobody else on the road behind you two? Masshole. That one that sped up to forty-five in a twenty, just so they could cut you off on a merge when you had right of way? Connectic*nt.

But if you’re here to relax, see some trees, get some tree blood for your pancakes, not litter, we are more than happy to have you.

No-Establishment, yep! Locals drive like that because 1- There is nowhere that needs to be gotten to, that fast, in VT! Chill, dudes. 2-Reckless driving kills people. Killing people, bad.
Another rule we follow is this: If you hear a siren, you’ll see people pull off to the side of the road and sit there until the ambulance/fire truck passes. This goes for both sides of the road. It may seem silly if you aren’t used to it, but there’s someone in an emergency that needs help as fast as possible and a clear road makes that happen.

This is going to trigger the minority conservatives out of the woodwork, but congrats! Welcome to the state, looks like you found some of your own people!