Middlebury/Otter Creek Valley

6-Day / 5-Night Bike Tours

Inns

• Shoreham Inn, Shoreham
• Waybury Inn, East Middlebury
• Lilac Inn, Brandon

Dates

• May 25-30
• Jun 1-6, 15-20, 22-27, 29-Jul 4
• Jul 6-11, 13-18, 20-25
• Aug 3-8, 10-15, 17-22, 24-29
• Sep 7-12, 14-19, 21-26, 28-Oct 3
• Oct 5-10, 12-17

Itinerary / Distances

• Sun: Arrival Day
• Mon: 30 or 40 mi (48 or 65 km)
• Tues: 28 or 44 mi (45 or 71 km)
• Wed: 22 or 32 mi (36 or 52 km)
• Thur: 29, 36 or 53 mi (47, 58 or 86 km)
• Fri: 22 mi (36 km)

Rates

• Spring: $1080
• Summer: $1165
• Fall: $1330

Deposit

$300 per person. Final payment due 60 days prior to your tour (personal check, Visa or MasterCard).

Bike Rental

$100

Single Supplement Fee

$50 per night

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel...
(a) at least 61 days prior to your tour, we will return 100% of your tour payments;
(b) 31-60 days from the date of your tour, we will return all of your tour payments except your deposit;
(c) 0-30 days from the date of your tour, there will be no refund of any tour payment.

Should Bike Vermont have to cancel your tour we will refund all your tour payments immediately as full settlement.

We strongly recommend you purchase Trip Cancellation Insurance as soon as possible. A detailed comparison of trip cancellation insurance policies and prices is available online and links for these sites are available at the end of the reservation page. We recommend CSA Travel Protection based on their rating by Consumer Reports. We will also send you an application form with your Confirmation.

Terrain

Easier to Intermediate

• Average Daily Mileage: 26 mi (42 km)
• Average Daily Mileage with Options: 38 mi (62 km)

 

6-Day / 5-Night Bike Tours Middlebury/Otter Creek Valley

This tour celebrates the best of all things that make Vermont so special. We have spectacular vistas of the Green and Adirondack Mountains, lush farmland, and apple orchards stretching down to the handsome shores of Lake Champlain, a superb collection of craft shops, a stay in Vermont’s prettiest college town, and some of the best cycling imaginable.

We spend our nights at three very special, and very different, inns. Sunday and Monday we delight in the friendly welcome of Dominic and Molly Francis at the Shoreham Inn, an authentic stagecoach stop that dates back to the 1790s. This beautifully restored inn brims over with warmth, hospitality, the aroma of good home cooking, and the comfortable aura of earlier times. Tuesday we are the guests of Tracey and Joe Sutton (recipients of the "2003 Vermont Innkeepers of the Year" award) at their historic Waybury Inn. Frequented by Robert Frost, and, more recently, featured in The Bob Newhart Show, this 1810 former tavern and boarding house is now a classic Vermont inn with rustic ceiling beams, country comfortable rooms and what Vermont Magazine recently called "one of the most creative restaurants in the state."

Our last two nights we enjoy the fine food and country elegance of Doug and Shelly Sawyer's Lilac Inn, a recently restored Greek Revival mansion now on the National Historic Register. This inn is set on one the prettiest streets in Brandon, a village recently proclaimed by Yankee magazine as one of the best places to live in all New England.

The cycling on this tour is superb. We crisscross the Otter Creek on several covered bridges, ride along the shore of Lake Champlain, and visit the University of Vermont's Morgan Horse Farm.

In Middlebury we visit the Vermont State Craft Center at Frog Hollow where more than 250 artists have created the most prestigious collection of Vermont crafts in the state. Middlebury also boasts other great shops and the lovely Middlebury College campus, and we often take a tasteful tour of the local Otter Creek micro-brewery.

Our cycling takes us through apple country, where we can enjoy rolling farmland while being treated to mind-boggling views of the Adirondacks as they tower over the far side of Lake Champlain. We enjoy the vista at historic Chimney Point and have the option to ferry across Lake Champlain to visit Fort Ticonderoga, site of Ethan Allen’s most daring Revolutionary War exploit. We take a lovely ride along the shores of Lake Dunmore, and picnic on the green in Proctor where we visit the fascinating exhibits and gift shop at the Vermont Marble Museum. It’s no wonder this tour is so popular!