Route 100

If you could take just one photo: Route 100

– Come and celebrate Stowe’s Season of splendor. Choose your favorite ride, North on Route 100 between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. Our choice is a Harley Davidson Road King. Everyone is revived by a late season Indian summer day. A bright blue sky serves as the perfect canvas to the pageantry of mauves, golds, greens, and crimsons, old familiar trails are rediscovered. The ponds, once obscured by the summer foliage, celebrate the autumn display by mirroring back the splendor in still waters once broken by the gentle ripple of Migratory Birds. The bike holds the road as it winds its way through the unspoiled New England countryside. A sobering gust of North western wind picks up speed on ski trails, wind carrying the scent of Arctic Juniper from the undiscovered peaks, cracks, and crevasses of Old Man Mansfield. The scented gusts carry the chill promise of winter, at last, snow. The final count down to ski season has begun.

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Go south on Stowe’s Main Street, and don’t stop until you’re lost in a land ablaze. Vermont’s Route 100 takes you on a veritable brochure tour of the area’s attractions—the Ben & Jerry’s Factory, Moss Glen Falls, Cold Hollow Cider Mill, and more. During autumn—Stowe’s season of splendor—the road explodes with color (daily foliage updates will steer you right): blue skies, silver ponds, and the Green Mountains awash in gold and crimson (all punctuated by white church steeples, purple vineyards, dappled cows, and red covered bridges). The road forms a sort of backbone of Vermont—stretching 216 miles from Canada to Massachusetts—that's easily doable in a single Indian summer day or a long, lazy, leafy week if you use it as a point of departure for exploring Vermont's beguiling backroads.

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