Day 3 - Sep 1, 2014 Last updated: 9/14/14 4:00pm PT
This morning we left Bennington, VT with a final destination of Burlington, VT. We could have driven due north and been there in under 3 hours, but what fun would that be? Instead we drove east, then north, then east some more, into New Hampshire, before heading west to Burlington.
There are a lot of historic covered bridges in Vermont. Not sure why bridges were covered in the first place and I didn’t bother to research them. We didn’t go out of our way to see any, but did see a few. One was in Townshend, VT. The Scott Covered Bridge, the longest in the state at 277 feet was built in 1870. The concrete pier under the middle of the bridge was built in 1981 to add support. There is a fence preventing anyone from entering the bridge.
Quechee Gorge, 165 deep and not very exciting.
Flume Gorge in Franconia Notch State Park, NH was much better. You walk up the gorge. In the winter, some of the wooden walkways are removed because the snow and frozen water would destroy them. The walls rise 70-90 feet and the width varies from 12-20 feet.
On the way out of Franconia Notch, we stopped to see what was left of the ‘Old Man of the Mountain’, a rock formation on the side of a cliff that collapsed in 2003. It was a symbol of NH and appears on their state quarter.
Approaching sunset over Lake Champlain in Burlington, VT (New York state is the land on the other side of the water).
