Woodstock, Vermont fall foliage

Woodstock’s village green, with the Middle Covered Bridge over the Ottauquechee River just off it, is the heart of the classic fall scene. Behind the village, Mount Tom rises above the rooftops, and trails climb to its open south summit for a view over Woodstock and the surrounding hills. Mount Tom is part of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Vermont’s only national park, where old carriage roads and trails wind through one of the oldest managed forests in the country and around a mountain pond called the Pogue. A few miles east, the Taftsville Covered Bridge, built in 1836, crosses the same river.

Follow Route 4 east from Woodstock along the Ottauquechee River, past the Taftsville Covered Bridge, to Quechee Gorge, a 165-foot-deep chasm known as Vermont’s Little Grand Canyon. The view from the Route 4 bridge looks straight down into the gorge, and trails follow the rim and lead down to the river. Heading the other way, Route 4 west climbs through the Green Mountains to Killington.