Other public rooms include a sunny reading room and candle-lit dining room decorated with colonial stencilling. The inn is fully licensed, with a good wine list. Dinner, offered most evenings, is a five-course fixed price menu which varies from day to day and is always to a very high standard. A day's notice is requested from guests wishing to dine. Room rates include an excellent full breakfast.
Outdoor activities are many and varied.
Vermont's Long Trail, as well as many other scenic walks and back country roads, provide opportunities to enjoy the unspoiled landscape. Swim and canoe at nearby Lake Dunmore, golf at Middlebury College, or just have a picnic in the woods. Outstanding cross-country and downhill skiing are a few minutes' drive. Eight miles to the west, the college town of Middlebury lies in the gentle terrain of the Lake Champlain Valley. The town offers a variety of fine shops, restaurants, the Vermont State Craft Center, the Morgan Horse Farm, and, of course, Middlebury College.