Warm Weather Activities

Valley locals will tell you that winter is only one-quarter of the reason we live here. Spring, Summer and Fall are the others.

With its ideal location in the center of the state and a huge number of outdoor activities to choose from right here, the Mad River Valley is truly a four-season paradise. Spring offers whitewater kayaking and canoeing, sugaring and the famous Sugarbush Triathlon. Summer is full of swimming, soaring, world class fly fishing and outdoor dining at the Valley’s local taverns and watering holes. And of course fall brings the everyone’s focus onto the brilliant reds, golds, yellows and browns of our foliage. Hiking, biking, camping, and photography are popular during this most colorful of seasons.

For a few marvelous and exhausting weeks each year, the seasons overlap, and you can do nearly anything you can imagine. Seemingly contrary activities like skiing and paddling come together into blurred days of constant activity. These are truly the weeks to be in the Valley and a part of the energy here.

Not to be forgotten is the Valley’s proximity to nearly every other activity, major metropolitan areas and not-to-be-missed Vermont sites. Waterskiing on Waterbury Reservoir, sailing and fishing on Lake Champlain, shows in New York and Montreal, the history of Boston, shopping in Burlington, whitewater rafting on the West, Hudson, and Kennebec Rivers, rock climbing at Bolton, Rumney, or North Conway and more and more; there is seemingly no end to the options that warm days and cool comfortable nights bring to the Valley.

In the end, the question we get to ask ourselves isn’t “What can we do today?” The question is “What should we do first?”