Traveling Huntleys

Inspiring travel stories, tips, and guides from a couple exploring the world one destination at a time.

Vermont

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

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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

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

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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.

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