When my boys were little, 6 or 7 years old, we kept watch as they easily maneuvered to the flat rocks below where we followed, picnic in tow. The gorge was carved thousands of years ago by retreating glaciers from the Ottauquechee River, which flows below. When you go searching for sheer beauty, it’s best to take it as it comes, and small is beautiful. On Route 4, less than eight miles east of the town jewel of Woodstock, you come to what people like to call “Vermont’s Little Grand Canyon.” Well, OK - if by little you mean really little. Quechee Gorge | The Most Beautiful Places in Vermont Photo Credit : Aimee Tucker Quechee Gorge, Quechee
Mount Pisgah and Mount Hor frame the glacier-carved waters - and if you come away thinking you’ve been swimming or hiking by a Norwegian fjord, you’ll not be the first. The lake and its surroundings has been called the “Lucerne of America” however, the world has long known of that tourist-filled city in the Swiss mountains, and so few know of this second-deepest lake in Vermont, its water cold and clear enough to see fish several feet beneath the surface. They also know that no lake in the state shimmers like Willoughby. A mix of beauty and grit, its villages are filled with people who work hard, love the outdoors, embrace winter as a time to snowmobile and ski, who know that fall is its Mardi Gras, when the outside world discovers that their kingdom truly shines. Vermonters are quick to tout the Northeast Kingdom as the truest Vermont. The Most Beautiful Places in Vermont Lake Willoughby | The Most Beautiful Places in Vermont Photo Credit : User Submitted/Mark Ahlers Lake Willoughby, Westmore
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