Woodstock is located west of the Connecticut River in Windsor County, Vermont. Since the 1790s, this town has been one of the state’s more sophisticated centers. Its distinguished central square, named the Green, is enclosed by renovated late Georgian and Federal style as well as Greek Revival houses, now largely taken over by tearooms and antique stores. This town should certainly not be mistaken for the festival location of Woodstock, New York.
There are two major paying attractions in Woodstock; the Billings Farm and Museum, partly a nationwide famous museum of farm life, partly a modern dairy farm; and the Vermont Raptor Center, a nature preserve where injured birds of prey are treated. Another place of interest is the Sugarbush Farm which offers spectacular views from their hilltop maple and cheese farm.
In Woodstock’s surroundings, visitors will find the picturesque Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, the United States’ only national park that concentrates on the conservation of history and land stewardship, while Silver Lake State Park invites nature lovers to 40 tent/trailer sites and a beach with large verdant area.
Woodstock attractions
Billings Farm & Museum: the popular living museum of Vermont’s rural ancient times is also a working dairy farm and features exhibits, a museum shop and a dairy bar.
Vermont Raptor Center: New England’s most important raptor care and educational facility gives visitors an extraordinary insight into the lives and fascinating abilities of more than 20 species of diurnal birds of prey including hawks, vultures and ravens.
Sugarbush Farm: a beautiful 5-mile drive from Woodstock, the 550-acre maple and cheese farm presents a sugarhouse, a farm house gift shop as well as maple and nature walking trails.
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park: the park invites visitors for a walk through one of the state’s most charming landscapes encircled by sugar maples and 400-year-old hemlocks.