Hotels near Sugarbush Resort.
Two mountains in the Mad River Valley, with Warren and Waitsfield's covered bridges and farm inns down below.
The 12 independent hotels we list within about 55 miles of Sugarbush Resort, ranked by drive time and the Le Hotelist Score. No chains.
- 43 min · 24.1 miclosestTrapp Family Lodge· 7.6Stowe, VT · $$$ from $525 · restaurant
The von Trapp family's 2,500-acre Stowe estate — 96 rooms, Bavarian-revival architecture, fourth-generation family-run.
- 45 min · 25.2 miGreen Mountain Inn· 7.9Stowe, VT · $$ from $285 · restaurant
An 1833 brick-and-clapboard inn in the village center — 100 rooms across original buildings + cottages.
- 47 min · 26.1 miTopnotch Resort· 7.6Stowe, VT · $$$ from $595 · restaurant
120 acres at the base of Mount Mansfield — 121 rooms, the Spa at Topnotch, family-owned.
- 49 min · 27.3 miEdson Hill· 8.1Stowe, VT · $$$ from $445 · restaurant
A 1939 manor on 38 mountainside acres — 25 rooms, dressage stables, Vermont country-house perfection.
- 58 min · 32.5 miTwin Farms· 8.0Barnard, VT · $$$$ from $2500 · restaurant
Sinclair Lewis's old farm on 300 private acres — twenty cottages and rooms, all-inclusive, adults-only, no menu because you just say what you want.
- 58 min · 32.5 miKillington, VT · $$ from $180
A lakeside 1856 farmhouse lodge on the Appalachian Trail at the foot of Killington — the low-key, dog-and-kid base for the mountain.
- 1h · 33.6 miRed Clover Inn· 8.3Mendon, VT · $$ from $325 · restaurant
Reopened June 2024. A restored 1840s farmhouse on 13 acres, minutes from Killington.
- 1h 12m · 40.4 miWoodstock, VT · $$$ from $400 · restaurant
The Rockefeller-owned inn on Woodstock's green — a 142-room, single-property institution that quietly runs the whole town's outdoor life.
- 1h 18m · 43.6 miKedron Valley Inn· 7.5South Woodstock, VT · $$ from $235 · restaurant
An 1822 stagecoach inn in a hamlet south of Woodstock — a swimming pond out front, a tavern that draws locals in ski season.
- 1h 36m · 54 miEastwind Lake Placid· 8.1Lake Placid, NY · $$$ from $445
The Eastwind trio's Adirondack project — seventeen rooms in the main house, eight new-build cabins on the Chubb River.
- 1h 37m · 54.1 miLake Placid, NY · $$ from $345
Forty rooms across from the Olympic Speed Skating Oval — the downtown Adirondack option.
- 1h 37m · 54.5 miLaurel Lake Placid· 7.2Lake Placid, NY · $$ from $187
A roadside Adirondack motel reworked with a lighter, woodsier hand — the value base for a Lake Placid weekend.
The hotels within a short drive of Sugarbush Resort are mostly chains and mid-scale boxes on the approach roads. The ones above are the independent alternatives — inns, converted buildings and small design hotels run by the people who own them. Each has a Le Hotelist Score built from five sub-scores (design, location, service, value, quiet), and the distance shown is straight-line; real drive times run a little longer on back roads.