Burlington offers many events and activities for families with kids, including festivals, fairs, factory tours, and museums. Highlights include the Champlain Valley Exposition, Green Mountain Chew Chew Festival, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory, and Shelburne Museum.
One of the types of events to explore with kids in Burlington are local festivals and fairs. The Champlain Valley Exposition, located in nearby Essex Junction, Vermont, offers a wide variety of activities to satisfy a variety of tastes. Highlights include the following:
Vermont Flower Show a marzo
Vermont Rails Model Railroad Show a marzo
All horse show in April
Vermont Quilt Festival in June
Vermont Balloon and Music Festival in June
Champlain Valley Fair in late August
Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival in September
Essex Fall Craft & Fine Art Show in ottobre
Vermont International Festival November-December
as well as flea markets held periodically. The Champlain Valley Fair was named one of the top 100 events in North America for 2007 by Destinations magazine.
Events in the city proper worth investigating with kids in Burlington are the Green Mountain Chew Chew Festival, a celebration of food, and the Discover Jazz Festival, both in June; the Key Bank Vermont City Marathon in May; and the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival in August. Circus Smirkus, an international youth circus that provides education and entertainment, also does a summer tour of New England — check their website for times so you can see them with the kids in Burlington or elsewhere in the region.
If you are visiting Burlington with children, another activity you may want to try is factory tours. Tours of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Factory in Waterbury are perennially popular, as are chocolate tours of Lake Champlain, right in Burlington, and the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory in Shelburne.
When visiting Burlington with kids, you might want to check out Vermont’s exciting collection of family-friendly museums. Just south of Burlington, Shelburne Farms is a working farm that has a children’s playground, while the Shelburne Museum has a real steamboat, hauled onto the site from Lake Champlain in a feat of engineering, as well as a number of buildings exhibits that include a lighthouse and a prison. The Echo Lake Aquarium and Science Center hosts a variety of science-focused exhibits for family fun, and the Bread and Puppet Theater and Museum offers performances and exhibits featuring perhaps the biggest puppets you’ll ever see.
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