Now is the time to plan that first Vermont ski vacation of the New Year! Ring in 2018 on some of Vermont’s best slopes, all easily accessible from our Woodstock, VT B&B.
Woodstock, Vermont is the perfect solution for anyone looking for a Vermont ski vacation home base. Suicide Six, Killington, Okemo, and more are just minutes away. Alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and fatbiking are all on the menu. You can even go ice-fishing and dog-sledding!
Kick off the holiday season at Woodstock Wassail Weekend 2017! The 33rd annual return of this beloved event promises a weekend of twinkling lights, historic home tours, a parade, Santa, and so much more! December 8th through the 10th, 2017.
Woodstock, Vermont’s 33rd annual Wassail Weekend is a jam-packed, 3-day event of festive, holiday events and activities. Visitors come from all over to enjoy the festive, old-time atmosphere of Wassail Weekend. In fact it’s one of the area’s most popular seasonal events!
From the Wassail Parade and Christmas at Billings Farm to the annual Holiday House Tour and Messiah Sing, Wassail Weekend has something for everyone. If you love the holiday season – and who doesn’t? – you do not want to miss Woodstock’s Wassail Weekend 2017!
Come to Plymouth Notch, Saturday, December 2nd, 2017, and celebrate the holiday season 1800’s-style at the 2017 Coolidge Holiday Open House.
Plymouth Notch is a Vermont village that is so picturesque it looks like it fell out of a history book. The village, which is also the birthplace and boyhood home of President Calvin Coolidge has remained virtually unchanged since the early 1900s. Consequently, it’s is an absolutely wonderful place to visit for the holidays!
President Coolidge’s Birthplace will be decorated as it would have been in the 1870’s, when Coolidge was born. In fact winter exhibits and Christmas decorations will be up all over this historic village. The Aldrich House, Plymouth Cheese Factory, and the 1924 Summer White House office will all be gussied up for the holidays.
The excitement returns to Killington this Thanksgiving when they once again host the Alpine Ski World Cup. After the the rousing success of the 2016 event, which attracted some 30,000 spectators, everyone is very excited to see what this year brings. November 24th through the 26th, 2017.
Some of the best ski racers in the world will again be carving turns down Superstar at Killington Resort and the area is bracing for all the crowds and excitement. The Audi FIS Women’s Ski World Cup will include the women’s giant slalom and slalom races.
Events like this are a great way to see the very best female, technical alpine skiers in the world in action. U.S. Ski Team superstars Julia Mancuso, Mikaela Shiffrin, and Lindsey Vonn are all expected to compete.
Are you going to be in the Woodstock area this Thanksgiving? If so, you should take the opportunity to experience an 1890’s Thanksgiving at Billings Farm and Museum. Thanksgiving weekend, November 25th through the 27th, 2017, 10am to 4pm.
The Billings Farm and Museum, in Woodstock, Vermont, is both a working dairy farm and a historic house museum. The farm is surrounded by more than 200 acres of cropland and the Mount Tom forest, yet is just a short stroll from Woodstock village center. The historic farm, established in 1871, continues a century-long tradition of agricultural excellence.
Billings Farm is known for its prize-winning Jersey cows, draft horses, Southdown sheep, and delicious, 100% raw-milk cheddar cheese. The facility focuses on rural life, work, and land stewardship based on the traditions and values of the 19th century. A visit is the ideal way to experience both the spirit of rural Vermont and what life was like in the 1890’s.
The Lebanon Opera House, in Lebanon, NH, is a community-based theater that regularly brings world-class acts to the Woodstock area. The current schedule includes such big names as Stephen Stills and Judy Collins, The Russian Grand Ballet, Rusted Root, and many more!
With our country roads, covered bridges, and quaint towns, one could be excused for thinking a game of checkers might be the height of entertainment for the area – but you’d be wrong.
In fact, one of the best things about our quiet, little corner of Vermont is that we don’t have to go very far to experience world class entertainment. Thanks to wonderful establishments like the Northern Stage, The Weston Playhouse, and Lebanon Opera House, there are always live performances to inspire, educate, and entertain.
Autumn is just around the corner and with it comes leaf-peeping season. Vermont is known for its gorgeous fall foliage. That’s no truer anywhere in the state than at Quechee Gorge State Park.
Is there anything more gorgeous than autumn In Vermont? Stunning reds, golds, browns, oranges, and every other iteration of tone in between interspersed with green. Add quiet country roads, quaint covered bridges, and good, earnest people and you’ve got a fall foliage lover’s paradise.
There are an endless number of Vermont drives, hikes, and bike trails a person could explore during this (or virtually any) time of year but one of the first that comes to mind is Quechee Gorge.
The Vermont Woodworking and Forest Festival is an annual opportunity to shop for handmade furniture and other wood products with live music, demonstrations, and good local food. September 23rd and 24th, 2017 at the Billings Farm & Museum.
The annual Vermont Woodworking and Forest Festival combines the beauty of handmade wood items with the wonder of the natural world. Not only will you be able to meet Vermont wood artisans while shopping for unique, handcrafted items, you’ll also enjoy forest tours, hands-on activities, and more.
Vendors will be on hand both days with their one-of-a-kind items. Wood carvings, cutting boards, turned bowls, jewelry, puzzles, boxes, toys, furniture and so much more! You’ll also witness modern and traditional lathe turning techniques by professional wood turners. The festival is a great chance to get an early start on your holiday shopping.
The lively, two-day, 2017 Plymouth Folk and Blues Festival returns to Plymouth and the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site this Labor Day Weekend – September 2nd and 3rd, 2017.
The Plymouth Folk and Blues Festival is one of the top ten fall events here in the Woodstock area. The festival, which celebrates its 13th year in 2017, has become a local Labor Day Weekend tradition.
Plymouth’s annual folk and blues festival always attracts some of the best regional and even national talent. This year’s festival line-up includes Hungrytown, Dupont Brothers, Bow Thayer, Eric French, Alastair Moock, Danielle Miraglia, and Jay Ottaway. People come from all around every year to enjoy live roots music in the pure country air of historic Plymouth Notch. You should, too!
Did you know that Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park has 600 acres of forest trails to hike and explore? June through October of every year, the park also offers a variety of free, fun, and informative guided hikes.
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Park, northwest of Woodstock village, is the oldest professionally-managed forest in the country. It’s also the only national park to focus on conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America (you can learn more about the park’s history here).
The park is crisscrossed with over 20 miles of trails and carriage roads, which are open year-round, dawn to dusk, for hiking, skiing, and snowshoeing. A good portion of the trails are also open to horseback riding. Throughout the summer, the park service spices things up with a number of guided hikes and rambles.
Now is the time to plan that first Vermont ski vacation of the New Year! Ring in 2018 on some of Vermont’s best slopes, all easily accessible from our Woodstock, VT B&B.
