11 real sites worth the drive — the state capitol, battlefields, monuments, and founding-era landmarks — each with why it actually matters, not just a pin on a map.
Vermont State House
Montpelier, VT
Montpelier is the smallest U.S. state capital by population — and famously the only one without a McDonald's.
Get Directions →Hubbardton Battlefield
Hubbardton, VT
The only Revolutionary War battle fought entirely within Vermont, part of the 1777 Saratoga campaign.
Get Directions →Mount Independence State Historic Site
Orwell, VT
One of the best-preserved Revolutionary War sites, a fortified hilltop across Lake Champlain from Fort Ticonderoga.
Get Directions →Shelburne Museum
Shelburne, VT
Thirty-nine buildings of American folk art, including a full steamboat moved overland.
Get Directions →Bennington Battle Monument
Bennington, VT
A 306-foot stone obelisk, the tallest structure in Vermont, marking the 1777 battle that helped lead to the British surrender at Saratoga.
Get Directions →President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
Plymouth Notch, VT
The village where Calvin Coolidge was born and where his father swore him in as president by lamplight in 1923.
Get Directions →Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site
Fairfield, VT
A replica of the parsonage where the 21st president was born, beside the church where his father preached.
Get Directions →Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
Woodstock, VT
The estate where George Perkins Marsh grew up, later home to Frederick Billings and the Rockefellers, a landmark of American conservation.
Get Directions →Hildene
Manchester, VT
The summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's only son to survive to adulthood, completed in 1905.
Get Directions →Old Constitution House
Windsor, VT
The tavern where Vermont's constitution was adopted in 1777, the first in America to outlaw adult slavery.
Get Directions →Ethan Allen Homestead
Burlington, VT
The last home of Ethan Allen, leader of the Green Mountain Boys who took Fort Ticonderoga in 1775.
Get Directions →Vermont has 11 sites on our list: Vermont State House, Hubbardton Battlefield, Shelburne Museum, Bennington Battle Monument, President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site, and more — spanning state capitols, battlefields, museums, monuments.
Hubbardton Battlefield in Hubbardton. A quiet field most Americans have never heard of, that helped set up one of the war's biggest turning points.
Yes — Montpelier is the smallest U.S. state capital by population — and famously the only one without a McDonald's. A capital that stayed small on purpose. See it before it inevitably becomes a trivia answer you forget.
Shelburne Museum, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Old Constitution House — hands-on history that works for a family day trip.
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