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.
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.
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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