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Northeast Kingdom Byway

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Recorded distance
93 km
Riding-time estimate
1 h 38
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.

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Why this ride

The quietest part of Vermont, with long forest stretches and lake towns. The road: US-5, VT-114 and VT-105. Distance and riding time are estimates from the checkpoints until the road is measured on this page.

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. St Johnsbury

    St. Johnsbury is a town that got rich making scales and spent the money well. In 1830 Thaddeus Fairbanks patented the platform scale here, and the family firm grew into a business that sold weighing machines across the world, which paid for a surprising set of public buildings. The Athenaeum, a library and art gallery opened in 1871, still has a hall lined with paintings, among them a vast landscape of Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt, hung in the same gallery since the nineteenth century. Across the road, the Fairbanks Museum, a red sandstone building with a barrel-vaulted hall, has a rich collection of stuffed birds, animals and natural curiosities, as well as a planetarium.

    Read the complete St Johnsbury write-up.

  2. 2. East Burke

  3. 3. Island Pond

  4. 4. Derby

  5. 5. Newport

    Newport lies at the southern tip of Lake Memphremagog, a long, narrow lake that stretches north into Quebec, and it is the largest town in what Vermonters call the Northeast Kingdom. That name was coined in 1949 by Senator George Aiken, who said that the region was so beautiful it deserved to be called a kingdom, and it stuck. The area is the wildest and least developed part of Vermont, with few people, lots of forest and a sense of being at the edge of things.

    Read the complete Newport write-up.

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