Vermont 2025

[goliadranger]

Anyone have some good self-guided routes for Vermont?  Solo senior looking for suggestions.

[jwrushman]

Here's a route around lake Champlain that I've not done but had planned to do this year.  Looks like it might get postponed until next year.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/48591975?privacy_code=LWeIbyuXz1KibO41oVVo691Knmo1wQCS

[BikeliciousBabe]

Anyone have some good self-guided routes for Vermont?  Solo senior looking for suggestions.

What do you mean by self-guided.  It typically refers to a trip arranged through a tour company that makes accommodations and transports your luggage.

If you mean self-contained/supported, I did this a few years ago:

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/39894553


I parked at the long-term facility (convenient and inexpensive) in Brattleboro and rode north to St. Albans.  Got a motel at the end and in the morning took Amtrak's Vermonter back to my car in Brattleboro.  I can tell you where I camped.  They were all state parks except for the last night on the road, which was spent at a nice municipal campground on the lake in Newport.  Vermont state parks are nice in that many of them have lean-tos for not much more than the cost of a regular site.  Very handy in the event of wet weather.  I only used my rain fly in Newport because I hard lean-tos eleswhere.

[David W Pratt]

One could start in Plattsburgh and take the ferry to Burlington, there pick up the Cross Vermont Trail which winds 90 miles across to Wells River on the Eastern Border.  At that point, cross the bridge over the Connecticut River to Woodsville and the beginning of the Cross New Hampshire Adventure trail.  Eighty miles later, you will be in Bethel, Maine, 4 states in 170 miles, mostly off road, or on very quiet roads.  Each of these has a web site where one can download maps.
Alternatively, start in Burlington and take the bike path north, a very short ferry ride (in warm months, check the schedule) to cope with a break in the causeway will lead you to the islands.  These have quiet level roads with the Adirondacks on one side, across the lake, and the Greens, similarly, on the other.  At the northern end you can turn right and ride down the eastern shore of Champlain, back to Burlington.  If you turn left, a bridge takes you to Rouse's Point NY, from there, south will take you to Plattsburgh, and very back to Burlington.
Have fun.