Eastern Vermont Gateway

Eastern Vermont Gateway covers Orange and Windsor counties in east-central Vermont, the rolling country running along the Connecticut River and the New Hampshire border. The terrain is rolling Green Mountain foothills — hardwood-forest hills, the Connecticut River cutting along the eastern boundary, and the White River draining most of the interior. The terrain is the gentlest mountain country in Vermont. Orange and Windsor counties cover the region. Orange holds Bradford, Randolph, and Chelsea; Windsor holds Woodstock (one of the most photographed New England villages), White River Junction (a historic rail town), Windsor (the birthplace of Vermont, where the state’s constitution was signed in 1777), and Springfield. The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park (the only national park in Vermont) sits in Woodstock; Quechee Gorge State Park and the Calvin Coolidge Homestead at Plymouth anchor the cultural sites. Most trips here run village-and-history focused. Woodstock handles the largest single-stream visitor traffic — the village green, the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller mansion, the Billings Farm & Museum; Quechee Gorge runs scenic-overlook traffic; the Calvin Coolidge homestead pulls presidential-history visitors; White River Junction’s restored downtown and the Northern Stage theater fill cultural visits.