Southern Vermont.
Southern Vermont is inn country. Most hotels in Manchester, Dorset, and the Green Mountains are single-property operations run by families who've owned them for decades — the Levis family at the Wilburton, the Inns of Dorset group (Barrows House + Dorset Inn, Vermont's oldest continuously operating inn), the non-profit Windham Foundation that runs the Grafton Inn and preserves the whole village. The Reluctant Panther is the region's highest-end small luxury property.
The Hermitage Inn
A Green Mountain country resort rebuilt with serious culinary ambition — ski Mount Snow all day, sit down to a tasting menu at night.
The Reluctant Panther
A 100-plus-year-old inn at the heart of Manchester Village — the region's most serious small luxury hotel.
Windham Hill Inn
A 140-year-old dairy barn rebuilt into country-chic rooms, on 160 Green Mountain acres.
Barrows House
Nine acres of park-like lawns, nine buildings of rooms and cottages, in the village that invented Vermont marble.
Dorset Inn
Vermont's oldest continuously operating inn — on the Dorset Green since 1796.
Red Clover Inn
Reopened June 2024. A restored 1840s farmhouse on 13 acres, minutes from Killington.
Seesaw’s Lodge
A 1940s ski lodge above Peru, reopened as a Scandi-minimal retreat. Bromley across the road.
The Four Columns Inn
Reopened June 2025 on the Newfane village green — a Greek Revival inn with an 1832 tavern attached.
The Grafton Inn
An 1801 inn in a restored village preserved by a Vermont non-profit. The whole town is the hotel.
The Wilburton
A 30-acre estate above Manchester, run by the Levis family since 1987. Destination weddings, family reunions, unapologetically eccentric.