It is time to update the Stowe Meadows Food and Dining Guide for Stowe, VT.   From Casual Eats to Vermont's most sought-after Chef-owned digs, Stowe Meadows Lodge recommends our favorites.   The Stowe Area (VT) offers diners wonderful options.  Again this year we're excited to post our favorite Stowe Area, VT dining spots. No hear-say, we've made certain to visit these locations and we've updated our outlook since our Stowe, VT Dining post in 2011.  As you'll find in any resort area, dining and lodging options change, chefs and owners come and go.  Some of our favorites are still on the list while we're excited to mention a few new spots you'll love.      In addition to our personal experiences, we solicited feedback from other "locals" (aka Stowe-area residents), Stowe merchants (who o... 08/11/2013

Looking for the very Best Food and Dining in Stowe, VT?  From Casual to Upscale, Burgers to Boyden Farm Steak Tartare, Stowetopia serves up a list of our favorites.   Welcome to Stowetopia's™ Best of Stowe VT™ annual guide to best of the area's dining, shopping, services, and entertainment.  We're serving up the best in Stowe area dining and food with our Best of Stowe VT™ list.  We've dined at all of these terrific spots. No hear-say, we've made certain to visit these locations multiple times over the course of the last year.  We've also tried a great many more dining establishments that didn't make this year's list.  We've visited restaurants as a single ("table for one please"), a romantic couple, a children-in-tow family and an adult group of 12+ friends.    In addition to our perso... 12/11/2011

Wanna know where the Stowe VT locals shop and dine...and play?  Want the best advise on buying-local without breaking the bank? How about first hand reviews of Stowe area activities? Here's your Guide To Stowe, VT from Stowetopia™. As the owner of the award-winning Stowe Meadows Lodge and a Stowe, VT local, I'm often called on to be a "Stowe Guide" of sorts. Nearly every Stowe Meadows guest asks for recommendations on three things:  1) Dining in Stowe, 2) Shopping in Stowe, and 3) Activities in Stowe. Check out Stowetopia™, our Stowe, VT Blog and take a tour around the Stowe area. Along the way you'll discover some of the most unique, locally-owned stores and restaurants in the state of Vermont. These are our favorite stops and nearly all are "buy-local" qualified.  Each of these locall... 11/28/2011

Zip lining is hot, even when it's cold outside! Stowe Meadows Lodge recommends ArborTrek Canopy Tours if you want to add a little zip to your next Stowe, VT vacation? "Yikes!" you gasp, "not in winter!" Yes, zip lining is a year 'round activity in Stowe, Vermont and is one of the hottest entries on the Stowe Meadows "Guide To Stowe Activity List".   Thanks to our friends at ArborTrek Canopy Adventures, up to 3 fantastic zipline courses are open all year at Smuggler's Notch, just across Mt. Mansfield from Stowe, VT. Vermont's First World-Class Zip line Canopy Tour will have you sailing above mature sugar maples, streams and centuries old hemlocks...all right in the heart of the Green Mountains.  Think you're too old?  Bahhh! My 74 year old father-in-law Rudi was totally up for this.   Th... 11/23/2011

Sunrise over Mt. Mansfield, VT - Halloween 2011 Though I can't call this an amazing color-filled sunrise shot, it was one for our record books.     Gorgeous Fall Foliage still on the trees (highlighted by the rising sun) and snow on the slopes.  Our Halloween this year included building a snowman who could wear a headdress of fall leaves.  Someone even suggested we give our Halloween snowman a pumpkin for a head.  ha ha                                 11/10/2011