Vermont Granite Museum, the place to visit in Barre
Around Barre, the places to visit include 10 museums, 10 ski areas and a mountain. Only one place to visit is inside Barre, but 23 more are within 40 miles. Roughly 78K visitors a year make it to Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. Make a day of it at Mount Washington, 60 mi away.
Mount Washington
Highest mountain in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
Mapped around Barre
The list reaches out to Cannon Mountain, 40 mi away.
Orange: Barre. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
Place by place
After the one in town come 56 more within 60 miles.
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4Fort Ticonderoga
18th-century star fort in northern New York in the United States.
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6Haskell Free Library and Opera House
Library and theater on the border of Derby Line, Vermont, United States and Rock Island (Stanstead), Quebec, Canada.
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9Stowe Mountain Resort
Ski resort in Vermont, United States.
10White Mountain National Forest
Federally managed forest contained within the White Mountains in the northeastern United States.
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Smugglers' Notch Resort
Ski resort in Cambridge, Vermont, United States.
Willey House, New Hampshire
Site of the historic (Samuel) Willey family tragedy.
Waterville Valley Resort
Ski resort in Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA.
Bretton Woods Ski Area
Ski area located in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA.
Santa's Village
Christmas-themed amusement park in Jefferson, New Hampshire, United States.
Fort Carillon
Colonial French fort in present-day Ticonderoga, New York, United States.
Burke Mountain Resort
Ski resort in East Burke, Vermont, United States.
Clark's Bears
Roadside attraction in Lincoln, New Hampshire known for trained performing bears and the White Mountain Central Railroad.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
House and garden of American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
Pico Mountain Resort
Ski resort in Rutland County, Vermont.
Ragged Mountain Resort
Ski area in New Hampshire, United States.
Whaleback Mountain
Ski area in New Hampshire, United States.
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
Architectural centerpiece of Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, located on Vermont Route 12 in Woodstock, Vermont, United States.
Chester Alan Arthur State Historic Site
Biographical museum in Fairfield, Vermont.
Enfield Shaker Museum
Outdoor history museum and historic district in Enfield, New Hampshire.
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
Natural history museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, USA.
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
Historic building and museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
The Hall Art Foundation
Art museum, makes available postwar and contemporary art works from own and founders collection of approx. 5000 art works.
Sullivan Museum and History Center
History museum at Norwich University, United States.
The places inside Barre lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Barre → · Barre’s history →
Photo credits
Vermont Granite Museum: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY 4.0 · Mount Washington: wwoods, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lake Champlain: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo · Fort Ticonderoga: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mount Mansfield: Original uploader was Calzarette (Joe Calzarette) at en.wikipedia, Public domain · Haskell Free Library and Opera House: Thomsonmg2000, CC0 · Lake Willoughby: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Killington Resort: NHRHS2010, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Stowe Mountain Resort: Stevage, CC BY-SA 3.0 · White Mountain National Forest: Ken Gallager at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Cannon Mountain: Mikespenard at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sugarbush Resort: Mrtrek1701 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jay Peak Resort: Hanumanix at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Okemo Mountain: Jrclark (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ausable Chasm: Alan Prusila / Alanp35 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Shelburne Museum: Storylanding, CC0 · Franconia Notch State Park: Stephen Sokolowski, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Green Mountain National Forest: Brian W. Schaller, FAL · Smugglers' Notch Resort: Jrclark (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Flume Gorge: MyCatIsAChonk, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Willey House, New Hampshire: alans1948, CC BY 2.0 · Waterville Valley Resort: MConradWard, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Loon Mountain Resort: Own work, Public domain · Mad River Glen: Jrclark (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Santa's Village: Alex McLeod, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Fort Carillon: Charny, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fort Crown Point: Daniel M. Horowitz, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Bolton Valley Resort: Gopats92, Public domain · Burke Mountain Resort: Patrick McCaffrey, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pico Mountain Resort: petersent, Public domain · Saskadena Six: Jared C. Benedict, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Hood Museum of Art: Daderot, CC0 · Ragged Mountain Resort: Tom Morgan, Public domain · American Precision Museum: Stilfehler, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wilson Castle: Daderot, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Landsc, Public domain · Vermont Marble Museum: GK tramrunner at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Chester Alan Arthur State Historic Site: Gerald L. Hann, Attribution · Enfield Shaker Museum: Neil.m.young, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0 · St. Johnsbury Athenaeum: Gopats92 Jonathan Leo Connor, CC BY 3.0 · Montshire Museum of Science: Jared and Corin, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum: Jegelewicz, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cornish Colony Museum: insiriusdenial, CC0 · Sullivan Museum and History Center: SMHCNorwich, CC BY-SA 4.0 · The Main Street Museum: Main Street Museum, CC BY 3.0
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