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Conveniently located in the heart of Central Vermont, Maplecroft Bed & Breakfast in Barre allows you to literally experience Vermont from its heart. Maplecroft provides a relaxing alternative for your winter vacation that allows you to enjoy some of the finest downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding and snowmobiling in the East, while avoiding the high lodging prices and crowded resorts. Barre-Montpelier is at the center of the best ski areas in the East, with Sugarbush and Mad River Glen to the south, and Stowe, Bolton and Smugglers' Notch to the north. Stowe Mountain Resort, Sugarbush Ski Area, Mad River Glen Ski Area, and Bolton Valley are all within 45 miles of Barre-Montpelier.

Barre's own Millstone Hill Touring Center provides 70 miles of cross-country skiing and snowshoeing trails through the scenic reclaimed granite quarries that made Barre the “Granite Center of the World.” Hubbard Park and Morse Farm Ski Touring Center in nearby Montpelier also provide miles of scenic cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

Barre is also home to miles of the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers (VAST) snowmobiling trails. VAST, a nonprofit organization responsible for the organizing of the sport of snowmobiling in Vermont, is based out of offices in nearby Berlin. In a day's ride you can snowmobile through agricultural land, multiple types of forest, into villages and to the edge of the settled landscape. (Contact VAST for information on snowmobiling.)

Maplecroft is a grand 1887 Victorian home built by Scottish immigrant George Mackie, and features a circular tower, carved wood trim, high ceilings and antique furnishings. Lovingly renovated, George Mackie's "Scottish castle" is the perfect place from which to enjoy Barre-Montpelier and all that Central Vermont has to offer. Maplecroft Bed & Breakfast offers three well-appointed guestrooms and two comfortable suites with TVs, one with a full kitchen. Each guestroom and suite has either a king or queen bed and a private bath, and both suites have an additional queen-size sleeper sofa. Common areas include a period parlor, dining room and music room with a well-tuned grand piano, as well as a comfortable den with a TV and a wraparound porch. The entire inn is WiFi accessible.

From Maplecroft's wraparound front porch it's just a short walk to Main Street Barre's shops and restaurants, the Vermont History Center, the historic Barre Opera House, the Aldrich Public Library and the historic Old Socialist Labor Hall, the Local Agricultural Cooperative Exchange (LACE) and Studio Place Arts Gallery and art school. Barre is also home to the Rock of Ages Granite Quarry and Visitor's Center, the Vermont Granite Museum and Stone Arts School, and the Hope Cemetery walking tour of locally-carved granite memorials. The Millstone Hill Touring Center with 70 miles of cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, biking and hiking trails, is just a short drive away. Both Norwich University and Goddard College are nearby. Downhill and cross-country skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers find that Maplecroft offers a quiet alternative to Stowe and the Sugarbush, and Mad River Glen ski areas as well as a convenient stopping place on the way to Montreal. Montpelier, the Vermont state capital, is home to the beautiful Vermont State Capital building, the Vermont Historical Society Museum and numerous fine shops and restaurants. It is also home to the New England Culinary Institute and its fine student-staffed restaurants. The Barre-Montpelier area also offers limitless opportunities to enjoy hiking, walking, mountain and road biking, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.

Within an hour's drive from Barre you can also enjoy such well known sites as Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Factory, the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Visitor Center & Cafe, Shelburne Farms and the Shelburne Museum, the King Arthur Flour Baker's Store and Baking Education Center, the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory, numerous maple sugarhouses and wineries, Burlington and Lake Champlain, and Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.

Visit us at Maplecroft Bed & Breakfast and experience Vermont from its heart.