Countless Year-Round Activities in Barnard, Quechee, Woodstock and Beyond!
Here's just a glimpse of what our part of central Vermont offers.
We're always happy to assist you plan activities during your stay.
For information or reservations please contact
us 802-234-6704.
OUTDOOR ADVENTURES
Eco tourism adventures: Individually arranged tours by
The Fan House-- includes personalized snowshoe treks through the
Chateauguay wilderness area.
Silver
Lake State Park: Only a three minute walk from our front door. Enjoy
swimming, fishing, boating or just relaxing lake-side.
Appalachian
Trail: Hike or walk the famous Appalachian Trail. There's a lovely
1.5-2 hour walk just a few miles down the road from the Fan House.
On-Road/Off-Road Biking: Great trails in four
directions out of Barnard. Our favorite scenic route is a 14-mile circle
to and from the Fan House. Bike Rentals are available from Biscuit Hill
Bike Shop in nearby Woodstock.
Hot Air Ballooning: Balloons
Over New England launches from nearby Quechee, Vermont. Perfect if
you're looking for a unique adventure, or perhaps something to add to
your romantic getaway.
Quechee
Gorge State Park: An amazing 180-foot-deep, mile-long chasm lined
with an easy walking trail. Quechee Vermont is a short drive from the
Fan House.
Killington Resort:
Four season resort offering skiing, snowboarding, golf, mountain biking
and more.
Okemo Resort:
Adventure for any season. Skiing & snowboarding, mountain biking,
Summer concerts, hiking and golf.
Suicide Six: 23 Trails of skiing and snowboarding
ranging from beginning to expert.
Ice Skating: Indoor skating at the Union Arena in
Woodstock Vermont.
Horse Drawn Sleigh Rides: Offered by Shelburne Farms
every weekend throughout the Winter months.
Visit the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller
National Historical Park.
TO YOUR HEALTH
Bikram Yoga of Pittsfield:
Classes offered 5:30 Monday-Thursday 9:00am Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Call 1-866-677-4288.
MUSEUMS
The Vermont
Institute of National Science: The VINS Nature Center is located in
Quechee Gorge. Among other exciting programs, it is considered New
England's leading raptor center.
Porter Music Box Museum & Gift Shop: An
exquisite and amazing collection of music boxes. Located in nearby
Randolph, VT.
Hood Museum
of Art: Dartmouth, NH. More than 65,000 objects in the collection.
Art from ancient cultures, America, Europe, Africa, Papua New Guinea,
and many other regions of the world. Modern and contemporary works.
Billings Farm & Museum
SHOPPING & ANTIQUES
Simon Pearce: Watch the art of glassblowing and
visit the famous retail store. In nearby Quechee.
ShackletonThomas:
Visit the pottery & furniture workshops and Workshop Store in
Bridgewater, Vermont. The Showroom is in Woodstock.
RESTAURANTS
The
Barnard Inn: World-class dining at just up the road. Read the
Barnard Inn review featured in the Boston Globe.
CULTURAL EVENTS
Pentangle
Council of the Arts: Located in Woodstock. Movie Theatre, live
theatrical, music and dance performances, more.
Chandler
Music Hall: Legendary music hall with first class performing and
visual arts.
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August Walk
The forest fringed, and a seethe of rain.
Indian pipes prod white, crooked fingers up through mulch,
boletus and inky caps glutton in the dank.
Lichen glues coral to moist granite.
We follow cleft hoof prints
of a bull moose, you striding ahead, I lagging,
you reading woods lore - ice-stripped bark, deer-nibble,
last winter's flurry, matted fisher-cat spoor; I distracted,
musing. The soil springs at our tread, moss banks
bristle with spores. Rain light shivers down
The felled giant sugar maple has broken out
in boles: baroque, all bulging eyes,
beaks, foreheads, claws, diseased
and dark as a mahogany Roman choir stall.
Off the moose path now, it's an old farm you seek:
rock piles from last century's sheepfolds,
inward-lapsing cellar hole;
a tumble where the chimney stood;
at the threshold, by the granite door slab,
a cluster of weed-choked lilies sprouted from lilies
the farm wife planted before the Civil War.
The road is a soft cesarean scar in tufted grass,
each rain-glossed leaf emits a stab of green.
Somewhere here survives the idea of home.
By permission of the author Rosanna Warren
and W. W. Norton from the book Departure.
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