Pick Your Scenic Drive
Scenic Drives
Name of Drive
Description
Highlights
Where It Begins and Ends
Length In Miles
Website
Lake Champlain Byway (islands drive section)
drive though Lake Champlain islands
great fall foliage
just north of Burlington on US 2 (off I89)
50
800/252-6727
Vermont 100
one of New Englands most scenic drives
Green Mountains
cuts through center of entire state from Stamford to Newport
216 miles (from 5 hours straight to several days)
800/837-6668
Lake Champlain Loop
lake beauty and New York scenery
ferry ride across lake to new york
From Addison Vt north to canadian border then south on New York side to Ticonderoga
190 loop
802/863-3489
Green Mountain Byway
includes Vermont 100 but extends north to Joy Peak near Troy
Mt Mansfield
Stowe
3 state parks near Waterbury (Camels Hump/Little River/Waterbury Center)
Waterbury to Stowe
71 (but 220 w/extensions)
800/837-6668
Smugglers Notch Road
steep winding road through string of stunning attractions
also called Mountain Road
Stowe to Jeffersonville
20 miles on Rt 108
800/837-6668
Vermonts Quiet Corner
scenic drive throgh white river valley
soaring mountains
Craftbury commons
White River Junction to Orleans
120
800/837-6668
Connecticut River Byway
border river between Vermont & New Hampshire
museums
historic sites
river towns
Vernon To Canaan on VT side
120
603/469-3584
Middlebury Gap Road
road through Green Mountain National Forest
ripton country store
Robert Frost cabin
Middlebury College campus
Rt 125 between E. Middlebury and Hancock
16
800/733-8376
Mad River Byway
valley of forested mountains
church steepled villages
from Montpelier south on Rt 100 and Rt 100B
36
800/837-6668
Southern Mountain Drive
scenic mountains
Grafton
Rt 121 between North Windham and Bellow Falls
21
800/837-6688