Mount Mansfield Cable Car & Toll Road
You'll enjoy gliding to the top of Vermont's highest mountain (4393 feet, 1339 meters) in a cable-car gondola.

You can drive to the top of Mount Mansfield on the toll road, climbing even higher into the mist, past bunches of exotic wildflowers, feeling the air get cooler.

The toll road base station is near the Stowe ski areas just south of Smuggler's Notch. You pay for your car and then proceed up the road, which is paved only for a quarter of a mile (the rest is stabilized dirt).

Both the gondola and the toll road are open daily from mid-June through mid-October, weather permitting.

Smuggler's Notch
It's hardly less exciting just to make the drive or hike through Smuggler's Notch, the narrow defile between Mount Mansfield, Spruce Peak and Madonna Mountain, on its twisting one-land road. More...

Sports
Topnotch at Stowe, that posh resort at 4000 Mountain Road (VT Route 108) near Mount Mansfield, is the place to rent horses by the hour or for a trail ride: Call 802-253-8585 and ask for the stables.

The more familiar summer pastimes are well covered too. Stowe Country Club has an 18-hole golf course; tennis courts abound (many hotels and lodges have their own); hiking, bicycling, fishing, and photography can fill whole weeks.

Special Events in Stowe
It's no exaggeration to say that something's always happening in Stowe in June, July, and August: antique car rallies, horse and dog shows, a craft fair, even a fiddlers' meeting, and a surprisingly authentic Oktoberfest (in October, natch) crowd into the schedule.

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