Covered Bridges

St. Johnsbury, Vermont: Cabot Creamery, Dog Mountain Chapel & Flume Gorge

June 13, 2017 by Michael Huntley

Last Updated: May 2026

St. Johnsbury sits at the southern gateway to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, a small city with an outsized cultural legacy — the Fairbanks Museum, the Athenaeum art gallery, and some of the best cheddar cheese in America all within a few blocks of each other. Our days here ranged from industrial curiosity (watching granite get quarried and turned into bowling balls) to genuine emotion (a hilltop chapel built in memory of a beloved dog), and from the verdant Vermont countryside to the dramatic gorge carved into the granite of New Hampshire’s White Mountains.

Vermont countryside scenery near St. Johnsbury in early summer

Quechee, Vermont: Simon Pearce, Covered Bridges & Quechee Gorge

June 6, 2017 by Michael Huntley

Last Updated: May 2026

Vermont has a way of slowing you down, and Quechee was no exception. We spent several days exploring the Upper Valley region — watching molten glass transformed into art at Simon Pearce, crossing four of Vermont’s iconic covered bridges, peering into the dramatic Quechee Gorge, tasting farmhouse cheese at Billings Farm, and wandering through some of the most extravagant spring wildflower scenery we’d seen anywhere. It was the kind of trip that makes you want to move here.

Covered bridge surrounded by Vermont spring foliage near Quechee

Bennington, Vermont: Four Covered Bridges, the 1777 Battle Monument & Robert Frost’s Grave

June 1, 2017 by Michael Huntley

Last Updated: May 2026

We enjoyed finding all the covered bridges and historic homes in Bennington, Vermont — more than we expected from a brief stop on our way north.

Beautifully weathered old house in Bennington, Vermont — we thought it was condemned until we saw people on the porch

We thought this house was condemned. It was oddly beautiful and would make a great haunted house. Then we saw people sitting on the front porch. Whoops.