Green Mountain Highway - The Most Scenic Drives in America: 120 Spectacular Road Trips - page 869

Just a few miles north and west of the village, off Rte. 108, the Trapp Family Lodge
commands a view of meadows and mountains that might have been imported from the
Tyrol, along with the familiar strains of the Trapp family's music.
Star Route
MOUNTAIN ROAD (RTE. 108)
Setting out from the charming resort town of Stowe, Mountain Road leads northwest
throughastringofstunningattractions,beginningwithMt.Mansfield.Thetollroador
a gondola will take you most of the way up, but you'll have to hike the final distance
to the spectacular summit. From there you can see Lake Champlain and the Adiron-
dacks to the west, Canada to the north, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire
to the east.
Farther along, at Smugglers Notch, a dramatic pass flanked by high walls of silver
rock, you can hike the Long Trail to lovely Sterling Pond or cool off in the dank
recesses of Smugglers Cave. Descending from these high, rocky places, the drive
breezes past a series of picnic spots and the Smugglers' Notch Resort before arriving
at Jeffersonville.
17. Jay Peak
As the drive draws to a close, it skims the edges of Vermont's least-populated corner, nick-
named the Northeast Kingdom. Rich in solitude, timberlands, and wildlife, travelers rarely
meet another car on the scenic gravel roads that snake through the backcountry hills, but
they might see a moose trudging within or alongside a beaver-dammed pond.
Standing alone and apart near the end of Rte. 100, Jay Peak is the northern bastion of
the long chain of Green Mountains. But for all the nearby wilderness, the dramatically ex-
panded Jay Peak is still part of the skier's Vermont with a new hotel, golf course, and wa-
terpark.Rte.100endsjustsouthoftheCanadian borderatajunction withRte.105,nextto
a farmer's field, just six miles from Newport, with its newly developed waterfront on Lake