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Burlington, Vermont offers year-round attractions such as museums, outdoor activities like skiing and hiking, historical sites, shopping at Church Street Marketplace, and great restaurants like Chef’s Corner Café and Bakery.
What you do when you visit Burlington, Vermont can involve a mixture of seasonal activities and year-round events and attractions. Year-round attractions to check out when visiting Burlington include the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, with its local and international visual arts; the Shelburne Museum with its folk art collection; or the Middlebury College Museum of Art.
Outdoor activities to enjoy when visiting Burlington include downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, and snowmobiling, for which Vermont is famous. In the summer, hiking, kayaking, canoeing and tennis are all very popular. You can watch the Vermont Lake Monsters, an Expos/Nationals minor league club play and even catch a game of cricket or Australian rules football.
If history is one facet you’d like to explore while visiting Burlington, the Ethan Allen Homestead Museum, closed November through April, takes a look at life in the 1700s through the person of one of Vermont’s first prominent families. If you’re willing to drive a bit, you can also see the President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site in Fairfield, the President Calvin Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth, or the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in South Shaftsbury, Vermont.
If you want to shop when you visit Burlington, check out Church Street Marketplace, where you’ll find over 100 stores including national chains like Border’s Books and Old Navy, as well as local shops like Boutilier’s Art Center, Vermont Folk Instruments, Lake Champlain Chocolates, Frog Hollow – a gallery of the Vermont State Craft Center and the Peace & Justice Center, which has a shop with international items. Speaking of local, remember this is a rural state, so you’ll find food, quilts, pottery, and more for sale at the individual Vermonters in their homes and studios if you venture onto the back roads, as well as local farmers markets during the growing season.
Obviously visitors need to eat, and if you want to do more than grab a bite to eat, there are great restaurants to explore when you visit Burlington. Check out Chef’s Corner Café and Bakery for wonderful food and exciting patisserie, Café Shelburne for French fare, Penny Cluse Café for delicious breakfast, and New England Culinary Institute (NECI) restaurants, like the Inn at Essex and Butler’s Restaurant. For Asian food, check out India House, Asiana House for Japanese fusion, A Single Pebble for Chinese, and Parima restaurant for Thai cuisine.
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