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Champlain Valley Maple Open House Weekend Tour

Highlights

Maple Open House Weekend Only Tour

Number of Stops

Multiple Options

Distance and Duration

Plan your own maple route.

The Champlain Valley Region

Vermont's popular Champlain Valley spreads from the central Green Mountains to Lake Champlain. In the west, winding roads climb a trio of mountain passes—the Appalachian, Lincoln, and Middlebury gaps—and descend into foothill villages like Ripton, where Robert Frost once found inspiration. In between the mountains and the lake, there are plenty of sugarhouses to tour!

More ideas to explore this area of Vermont

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Stop 1

Bread Loaf View Farm - Cornwall

Maple Cream & Bacon Dogs, Local Coffee & Tours

Open 9am to 4pm, Saturday & Sunday, 3/21 & 3/22

486 Cider Mill Rd, Cornwall VT 05753

(802) 349-1755

info@breaadloafviewfarm.com

https://breadloafviewfarm.com/

This year we are bringing back the savory McKenzie All-Beef hot dogs cooked in real Vermont maple syrup. Enjoy one straight up and plain, indulge in our Maple Cream/Bacon dog or get a Cabot Cheddar Cheese topped hot dog. And don't forget to try our maple based condiments for some extra flavor!

Come early and start your day with a Maple Cream topped donut puff and a fresh cup of Speeder & Earl's maple French Roast coffee. There's plenty to do and see in the sugarhouse with fresh syrup for tasting and products for sale. And a walk on the "Sugarwoods Trail" is always an adventure in the making.

Directions: Address is 486 Cider Mill Road, Cornwall. We are 5 minutes from downtown Middlebury. Cider Mill Rd from Middlebury can be reached either by Rt 125 or Rt 30. Same distance both ways. Enter the property at the Bread Loaf View Farm Sugarhouse sign.

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Stop 2

Foxglove Farm - Leicester

Demonstrations, Samples, Churros & Maple Pizza

Open 10am to 3pm, Saturday & Sunday, 3/21 & 3/22

777 Delorm Rd, Leicester VT 05733

(802) 247-4379

foxglovefarmgifts@gmail.com

https://www.foxglovefarmvt.com/

The trails will be open for walks and the farmstand will be open for purchases. We’ll have demonstrations and free samples. 

  • Saturday our friends from La Chata will be making and selling fresh Mexican churros, and
  • Sunday we’ll have the pizza oven fired up for maple pizza.
Sign on wooden wall reads "Pure Vermont Maple Syrup" with red maple leaf.
Stop 3

Sunset Sugar Shack - Orwell

Stories & Samples

18 Shoreham Depot Rd, Orwell VT 05760

(802) 236-4085

laducshomecare@shoreham.net

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Open 10am to 4pm, Saturday & Sunday, 3/21 & 3/22

Enjoy food, maple sampling, and stories while visiting our small family run sugarhouse.  Meet the crew and check out the progress on our addition, while shopping for maple syrup, cream and candy.  Don't forget to check out our maple nuts.  Fun for all!

Snow-covered path leading to a wooden bridge in a wintry forest.
Stop 4

Robert Frost Interpretive Trail

3216 VT-125, Ripton, VT 05766

1.2 mile out and back trail; first 0.3 miles are accessible (dogs on leash are allowed)

This National Recreation Trail commemorates Robert Frost’s poetry; several of his poems are mounted along the trail in the woods and fields. Blueberries and huckleberries grow in an old field at the far end of the trail. The trail is an easy walk, and the first 0.3 miles across a beaver pond boardwalk out to the South Branch of the Middlebury River is accessible and suitable for wheelchairs. The Forest Service maintains all of the old fields along this trail with prescribed fire to preserve the scenic, open appearance of the area.