Vermont, an Explorer's Guide

Two veteran travel writers reveal the best dining, lodging, and attractions in the Green Mountain State. Visitors and local Vermonters alike seek out this comprehensive guide, the first traveler's guide to the state and still the most authentic. From the green foothills of the Connecticut River Valley to the shores of Lake Champlain, from the peaks of the Green Mountains to the far reaches of the Northeast Kingdom, Vermont travelers and writers Christina Tree and Sally West Johnson find places that don't make it onto bus tours or into other guidebooks.

Features include:

Hundreds of dining reviews, from roadside diners to four-star cuisine

Opinionated listings of inns, B&Bs, hotels, and vacation cottages

25 up-to-date regional maps

Handy icons point out places that offer best value, cater to families, welcome pets, host weddings, and provide handicapped access.

80 black and white photographs 25 maps Index

Author Biography: Christina Tree has been traveling and vacationing in New England since her childhood and has written about its attractions for The Boston Globe for nearly thirty years. She is the co-author of Explorer's Guides to Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, as well as Best Places to Stay in New England. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sally West Johnson is the editor of Vermont magazine. She lives in Middlebury, Vermont.

Why I love co-authoring Vermont, An Explorer's Guide: People frequently ask me how I got "this job" and I have to explain that I made it up. Over the past 30 years I have written more than 1000 New England travel articles for The Boston Globe and roughly 20 years ago I began incorporating these stories into a series of books, which were the first to describe each of the New England states region by region and in practical detail. Vermont was the second in this series and half way through writing the first edition my mother became gravely ill so my publisher, Peter Jennison, swung in as the co-author. That was lucky! Peter, a novelist,7th generation Vermonter and historian, is a great asset to the book which--we think--combines some great word pictures of Vermont's least as well as best known places with all the detail info you need to explore them. I myself travel thousands of miles around the state every year, sleep as many places as I can and walk into hundreds of lodging places. I also check out shops, restaurant and take time to hike, boat and otherwise keep enjoying Vermont, which just keeps getting better the more I explore it.