I have mentioned before that when my wife and I decided to to go Vermont for our 15th anniversary, I started doing some research ahead of time. In fact, we had the trip booked a good six months before we even went and my research started long before that.
During said research, I discovered a website that listed the 15 or 20 must see things if you are visiting Vermont in the fall. We tried to hit as many of them as we could, but some of them were already closed, or just not very accessible.
The falls park in Vergennes, VT just happened to be on that list.
The morning @mrsbozz and I visited the Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream factory, we were trying to find a good place to grab a quick breakfast. Sure, we could have went with the buffet at the hotel, or stopped through McDonald's quick, but we wanted something unique.
It turns out just across the road from our hotel was a little cafe and market called Burlington Bay Cafe. They had breakfast sandwiches you could order and then take with you, so we decided to try it out.
We ended up liking it so much, we stopped there again on the morning that we left to visit Vergennes.
I went in and ordered our sandwiches while @mrsbozz waited in the car. It took about fifteen minutes for them to put them together each time and I have to admit, they were really tasty. Where McDonald's uses English Muffins for their breakfast sandwiches, the Burlington Bay Cafe uses what they called Portuguese English Muffins.
I'd never heard of a Portuguese English Muffin before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. It turns out, they are really similar to a pancake (at least these ones were). It was an interesting texture and ultimately, it worked out really well.
It was quite enjoyable and I would have loved to tried some of their lunch offerings. It wasn't just because it was close and convenient, the food was really quite good. As you can clearly see from the photos!
As you head south out of Burlington, the 40 minute or so drive down to Vergennes takes you through the town of Shelburne and past the Shelburne Historic Farm which @dtam wrote a post about back in September. It looks like the weather was a lot better for him in September than it was for us in late October. Otherwise we might have stopped at the historic site.
The drive to Vergennes also takes you along the shore of Lake Champlain most of the way down. It's a quite beautiful drive even when the skies are dark and dreary. You can see the mountains of upstate New York off in the distance.
The town of Vergennes is small with a very historic feel. That's pretty typical in this part of the country. Many of these towns were around long before the rest of the US was even explored (by white men). It was established in 1788
Vergennes Falls park isn't super easy to find, but if you follow your GPS or Pinmapple, you should be okay. It's tucked back in an industrial part of the town along the shores of Otter Creek. Fun fact: Vergennes is where the fleet was built and armed that defeated the British on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
As you can see, the recent rain (or other factors) had raised the level of Otter Creek past the falls quite a substantial amount. There is a boat launch at this park that was completely covered with water. In fact, the water was halfway across the parking lot.
There was a guy that was attempting to launch a small 12 foot boat in to the creek and I am not sure he was ever successful.
I'm usually prefer natural waterfalls versus man made ones like this, but I have to admit the facility here was pretty impressive and I can see why they added it to a list of must see places in the fall. I think if we had been a little earlier in the season and had a nicer day, it would have been quite beautiful.
On this day, it was still worth the drive down to see it.
We probably would have tried to spend more time down in Vergennes, but we had another site that I wanted to check out on the far north side of Burlington. That meant we needed to hop back in the car and drive another two hours to get to our destination.
Plus, on the way down to Vergennes, I scoped out another location that I wanted to check out. It turned out to be one of the best parts of our day, but you will have to wait until next week to hear about that!
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Looking back, I probably would have made our trip south from Burlington a full day trip, you could easily hit Shelburne Farms farms in the morning, make your way down to Vergennes for lunch and then stop at a couple other places on your way back. The drive is easy and beautiful with plenty of cool places to stop along the way.
With all the other things happening around the resort towns like Stowe, I can see how southern Vermont probably gets overlooked at times.
I recommend you don't make that mistake!
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Thanks for the shoutout and I'm glad you are enjoying Vermont. Now I feel like I need to make the trip to some of these places that I haven't fully explored yet...even though I'm based out of Stowe!
Oh wow, that is cool. It was late October when we were over that way. We stopped into Idletyme Brewery and it was really nice. We wanted to go up the toll road, but it was closed down for the season already. We ended up just driving through Smuggler's Notch.
That breakfast sandwich looked good! Every time I see all the trees on the east coast it really makes me miss living out there, but I don't miss those noreasters... I can't wait to see where you went there next week!
Looking forward to sharing it. It was probably one of the coolest parts of our trip and it happened purely by chance. I can't imagine how bad those storms are coming off the ocean like that!
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Beautiful all your photos, I loved them!
Thanks for sharing them here along with your experience with us. Greetings! 🤗
Thank you, I appreciate that! The scenery is so great around here it makes it pretty easy to take good photos!
They do look quite different to the english style muffins, but looks like you had a tasty meal there. Certainly somewhere I would drop in to eat.
It was really good, the ingredients were fresh and the store was even a state liquor outlet, so you could get everything you needed there!
Yay! 🤗
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Really looks like a nice place. Waterfalls always give a good atmosphere, even when they are man-made. That last photo is fanatstic!
You like that last photo? Just you wait. You can actually drive up that mountain. I'll be sharing that next week!
The Portuguese English Muffin is looking very good
I think it has some elements of Shawarma in it
Am I right?
They had a couple different choices. One was like sausage egg and cheese, the other was ham and cheese and apple slices. Things like that.
Hehe... this is really sweet, and the image of the Portuguese Engkish muffin makes my mouth water. It looks so good that I wish I could order some.
Also, you guys look so great in the picture, and I like mzbozz shade. It looks great, and I am glad you guys had fun. Thanks for the hint. Now I want more, but I'd have to wait until the publish button showcases the post.
We had never had anything like the muffin before, so it was really interesting. Thanks, it would have been nice for the sun to be out a bit more, but we had a nice time and the view was pretty cool.
I bet it was. That's the vibe. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome pictures! Sooner or later I'm going to Vermont and the Adirondacks, preferably in autumn. Beautiful scenery!
Make sure you don't wait until as late in October as we did. You might have to deal with more people though!
I was actually planning a trip towards the end of September this year, then got sick. 🤒That's the worst part about autumn travel is trying to catch just the right time for the foliage. I've heard Vt. gets pretty crowded in autumn though. Thanks for the advice!
Ah, that sucks. Late September would have been a great time. Definitely need to watch out for the "peepers".
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STOPor to resume write a wordSTARTI love the colors of the autumn, it really look like a masterpiece! Well, it’s one from the nature! Amazing pictures btw! Thanks a lot for sharing!
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