# Sights not-to-be-missed in Berkshires & southern VT? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 11, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092 "2009-05-11T21:42:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092/21 "2009-05-13T15:37:52Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Woodstock is a beautiful little town (not far from us, incidentally). It’ll give you rural quaint Vermont until it’s coming out your ears. It’s not far from Quechee Gorge, southern Vermont’s answer to the Grand Canyon. There’s some very light hiking there. Also in Woodstock are the Billings Farm and Museum - one of those working old-timey farms, if you’re into that sort of thing - and Billings National Historical Park, which has more nice hiking. Oh, and there’s a covered bridge in Quechee. There are lots around, but that’s the only one I can place with certainty off the top of my head. Ditto this. I really enjoyed Billings Farm . . . of course, being a local, part of the interest was in learning about a handful of people who owned/worked on the farm for whom half of the buildings in the state are named after (or at least on the UVM campus). Two places I’ve eaten at in Woodstock that I loved were [Mangowood](http://www.mangowood.com/DEFAULT.ASP) and [The Jackson House](http://www.jacksonhouse.com/) (not sure if they’re open in the spring). ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092/22 "2009-05-13T16:07:34Z")
Doesn’t Brattleboro have an “International Nude Day?” that could be a little embarrassing with your girlfriends Mother in tow. I haven’t lived in Vermont for many years, but I remember going to see UVM’s Morgan Horse farm in Middlebury. If your girlfriend or her Mom likes horses that might be worth a look. Maybe a little far North, for your itinerary. But if you get that far North, then Stowe would not be far away. And the Shelburne Museum. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092/23 "2009-05-13T16:15:17Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Apparently the draw (apart from the food, which has been highly recommended to us) is that you can watch glassblowers while you eat, and your tableware was made right there. Nah, the glassblowers are downstairs, but the food is great and you have a nice view out onto the waterfall that powers some of the store/workshop. Restaurant is largely in the glassed in area: [![](https://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/147693308_dea7b670cb.jpg?v=0) ](https://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/147693308_dea7b670cb.jpg?v=0) In Woodstock for lunch, I like the Mountain Creamery for sandwiches and homemade ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092/24 "2009-05-13T16:19:09Z")
As far as art musuems, if you can take a detour over to Dartmouth, the Hood Museum is free to the public: [http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/calendar/](http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/calendar/) There are also cool gallery spaces in White River Junction, in the Tip Top building which used to be industrial space, I think a factory bakery: [http://www.whiteriverjunction.org/art/](http://www.whiteriverjunction.org/art/) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092/25 "2009-05-13T16:21:38Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Nah, the glassblowers are downstairs, but the food is great and you have a nice view out onto the waterfall that powers some of the store/workshop. Restaurant is largely in the glassed in area: Thanks. As I said, we haven’t made it there yet… Just going off what I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092/26 "2009-05-13T17:01:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Doesn’t Brattleboro have an “International Nude Day?” that could be a little embarrassing with your girlfriends Mother in tow. It was more than a day. Apparently it was a fad that lasted quite a while (I believe a couple of years) for students to walk around naked. It finally ended when the city passed an ordinance forbidding public nudity in 2007. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092/27 "2009-05-13T17:02:58Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Thanks. As I said, we haven’t made it there yet… Just going off what I’ve heard. Do go, if only to ogle to glass! It was used in Sweet Home Alabama in the glass store/restaurant Jake opens. They also have seconds which still aren’t cheap but can be almost indistinguishable from the non-seconds. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092/28 "2009-05-19T22:43:53Z")
I wonder what the itinerary is? Lets us know!! ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092/29 "2009-05-20T14:39:16Z")
> [@Serronaulta](#): > > As for restaurants, I really like the [Montague Night Kitchen](http://montaguenightkitchen.com/): fine dining in a rustic New England setting (it’s inside a renovated mill building). You can sit at one of their copper-topped tables next to the windows and look out on the Sawmill River as you dine. The Night Kitchen isn’t far from Route 2 and it’ll be on your way as you drive west to North Adams. It’s only open for dinner though, but the wonderful food and ambience are worth the visit. I was just there last week and loved it.. I was thinking of mentioning the Montague Book Mill, which apparently is in the same building. Just a bookstore in an old mill, but if you’re in the area a nice stop. Also, If you go to MOCA/North Adams and come in from the east on Route 2, don’t forget to wake up the passengers for the descent into town. Nothing spectacular by say, Colorado standards, but kind of famous for Massachusetts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sights-not-to-be-missed-in-berkshires-southern-vt/496092.md?page=1)