The trip after the wedding
A friendsmoon in Stowe, VT
1 place here can put the whole group under one roof.
The trip you take with your friends right after the wedding — instead of the honeymoon, or before it.
Best months: January, February, March, July, August, September, October.
Where the group sleeps
- Mountain Road chalet$800–$1,700 / night
Hot tub + ski-in/out walk
Sleeps 14
What you do
- Spruce Peak ski day
Lift tickets + lodge lunch
- Trapp Family lodge backcountry tour
Sound-of-Music meadows + brewery finish
- Spa day at Topnotch
Couples massages + maple-sugar scrub
- Mountain biking Cady Hill
Flowy single-track for all levels
- Spruce Peak Spa champagne soak + facial
Mountain-view cedar soaking tubs + bridal package
- Cold Hollow Cider Mill tasting + picnic
Fresh-pressed cider + cheese boards on the orchard lawn
Where you eat
- Plate
Snug 30-seat, chef's-counter energy
- Edson Hill
Stone fireplace dining room + après hour
- Alpine Hall at Spruce Peak
Chef Sean Blomgren's room at the Spruce Peak base, built on the region's growers, farmers and makers — a short, worked-over menu rather than a long one. Dinner nightly by reservation; breakfast is buffet.
Still deciding?
How Stowe stacks up against the other places in the Northeast.
- Stowe or Poconos?
- Stowe or Portland?
- Stowe or Portsmouth?
- Stowe or Providence?
- Stowe or Provincetown?
- Stowe or Rehoboth Beach?
- Stowe or Salem?
- Stowe or Saratoga Springs?
- Stowe or The Hamptons?
- Stowe or Washington?
- Stowe or Annapolis?
- Stowe or Atlantic City?
- Stowe or Baltimore?
- Stowe or Bar Harbor?
- Stowe or Berkshires?
- Stowe or Block Island?