With trails and campsites directly adjacent to the rushing West River, and hiking access to 125ft Hamilton Falls, this is one of only two riverside state parks in Vermont. It's especially popular with kayakers and rafters for its annual white-water weekends in May and September. It's 27 miles north of Brattleboro off VT 30.
Jamaica State Park
Top choice in Southern Vermont
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
15.75 MILES
The ancestral home of Mary and Robert Lincoln, who was the son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, 412- acre Hildene is a working farm, museum and…
20.01 MILES
Offering a crash course in Vermont food, the market has more than 50 local vendors selling cheese, free-range beef and lamb, honey, pastries, maple syrup,…
Merck Forest & Farmland Center
23.3 MILES
Encompassing 3200 acres of high-country meadow and forest, this sprawling farm and environmental education center offers a blissful vision of Vermont's…
26.93 MILES
Bennington's standout attraction, this museum features the world’s largest public collections of Grandma Moses paintings and Bennington pottery, along…
29.83 MILES
Set in the bucolic hamlet of Plymouth Notch, birthplace of President Calvin Coolidge, this small operation produces a traditional farmhouse cheddar known…
President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
29.76 MILES
Plymouth Notch, where President Calvin Coolidge grew up, still looks much as it did a century ago, with homes, barns, a church, a one-room schoolhouse and…
27.9 MILES
Housed at Keene State College, the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery plays a crucial role in supporting the arts in this rural region. Its spacious sky-lit…
Bennington Battlefield Historic Site
29.26 MILES
Just west of the Vermont/New York border, this was the site of a crucial American Revolutionary War battle in 1777. Had Colonel Seth Warner and Vermont's …
Nearby Southern Vermont attractions
1. American Museum of Fly Fishing
15.46 MILES
This museum has perhaps the world's best display of fly-fishing equipment, including fly collections and rods used by Ernest Hemingway, Babe Ruth, Bing…
15.75 MILES
The ancestral home of Mary and Robert Lincoln, who was the son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, 412- acre Hildene is a working farm, museum and…
3. Southern Vermont Arts Center
16.29 MILES
In addition to excellent outdoor sculptures, this center's 10 galleries of classic and contemporary art feature touring shows of sculpture, paintings,…
18.47 MILES
Run by the same family for more than a century, this 400-acre farm hosts maple-sugaring demonstrations in early spring; it also offers free sugar-house…
5. Sugar Shack & Norman Rockwell Exhibition
18.88 MILES
In Arlington, a 10-mile drive north of Bennington, this tiny maple-syrup shop houses an exhibition of Saturday Evening Post covers from Norman Rockwell's…
19.72 MILES
Pet, groom and say hello to over four dozen barnyard animals at this farm 1 mile north of town on VT 30. Look for the large cluster of red barns (or…
20.01 MILES
Offering a crash course in Vermont food, the market has more than 50 local vendors selling cheese, free-range beef and lamb, honey, pastries, maple syrup,…
20.14 MILES
Named for a 1700s land grant, the original fort here was built in the 1740s to protect pioneer farmers from the French and Native Americans, but was no…