Here are the cities of our nation's 14th state. Vermont is a very rural state; After Burlington, we're really talking about big towns. Anything over 8,000 people stands out here.
BURLINGTON is the largest city in the state at a bit under 40,000. It has a few suburbs as well, such as Essex Junction, Winooski, and South Burlington.
This is Church Street, the pedestrian mall. It was okay. Kinda dull. I prefer State Street in Madison, WI. One pic will do.
Burlington is home of the University of Vermont (no photos, sorry.) It dominates the city to a large extent, but there were other things going on as well. There are a lot of tech firms in town.
City Hall Square, I think
The city lies on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain. There was a very nice promenade.
New York's Adirondack Mountains loom across the lake.
ACROSS THE STATE, this is the Connecticut River, which seperates Vermont from New Hampshire. We're looking at NH from VT
RUTLAND is the 2nd largest city in Vermont with 17,000 folks. I had heard nothing but bad things, and was expecting Methville. Vermonters can be a bit dramatic descibing how bad places are. Rutland has some troubles (some funky looking folks at the gas station on the edge of town), and some unsightly highway stores, but the downtown was great. This is why we travel: surprises like Rutland.
There was a big walmart downtown, on the other side of this street. At least it's downtown, I suppose.
Nice location, right in the mountains.
Some scenery west of town
MONTPELIER. As state capitals go, this is as quaint as they get. Montpelier has about 9,000 people, and a vibrant downtown with lots of bookstores. I'm sure 'real' Vermonters hate this town, but we can't all be lumberjacks. These are from November, prior to the descent of winter's icy fist.
State house and Winooski River
Being someone who works with computers all day, I should be able to figure out why this is right up in my photo folders, and sideways here. Just tilt your head.
It took 11 pictures to get the flag like that
The Onion River, a tributary of the Winooski
Hubbard Park was a magnificent mountain park near the center of town.
Hark, a castle of sorts
The Green Mountains
BRATTLEBORO is in the southeast corner of the state, a few miles north of the Massachusetts state line, and on the Connecticut River across from New Hampshire. It was a dark September night. 12,000 citizens.
Does anyone know if there is a college in Brattleboro? I'm not aware of one, but there were alot of college-looking types about.
Spooky house
West of Brattleboro (before I got there, which is why it's still light. I'm bad about chronology). I stopped at a scenic lookout to enjoy the sunset. Walking back to the car, I passed two 90-year old ladies sitting in a car with Vermont plates "X NYC". I told them I liked the plates and they said "Oh, we have fun with it." I told them I was soon to be X Chicago, and they congratulated me. People like it up here.
Texas Falls, in Addison County
Heading towards the Adirondacks on VT Route 17.
ST. JOHNSBURY is located in the Northeast Kingdom, which is the most remote, backwoods part of the state. Not much tourism money makes it up here. St. Jay was attractive, but seemed depressed. 6,300 people are this town.
There were actually two downtowns, one at the bottom of the hill and a smaller on on top. These are all from the smaller one.
All I'm really missing here is Barre, which is a blue-collar quarry town near Montpelier. It had more of an Anytown USA look than anywhere else in VT, and not in a bad way. Also Bennington, a colonial town in the SW corner. Pretty touristy.
Let's all do a shot of maple syrup.
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