Great Freedom Adventures Guides Cyclists into Vermont’s Past

03-30-2011

 Great Freedom Adventures Guides Cyclists into Vermont’s Past With Focus on Cuisine, Handcrafted and Environment

 

SHERBORN, MA, March 29, 2011 – The tour operator who promotes freedom on two wheels, Great Freedom Adventures (http://www.greatfreedomadventures.com/), announces three departures of Best of Vermont Bike Tour  July 24-29, July 31-Aug. 5 and Sept. 25-30 at $2,195 ($2,395 for September trip) per person double occupancy (single supplement $450). Plus a free spa certificate comes with signups between now and May 1.

Great Freedom Adventures is the only tour company offering six day/five night Vermont vacations that include a farmhouse dinner at a working farm with foods grown and raised on the farm, daily activities and sightseeing in addition to cycling, a mountain top hike plus accommodations and dining in Woodstock that are superior to those offered by any other tour company.

“Vermont is one of the nicest places to bike; as a result, a number of companies offer tours here,” said Jeanne Rummel, owner. “What we do that’s different is focus on Vermont’s most historically and culturally rich region that is defined by quiet, beautiful roads that allow cyclists to concentrate on the landscape.”

 

Her tours embrace the joys of the most scenic routes to and from more of Vermont’s prettiest towns: Woodstock, Barnard, Pomfret, Brookfield, Northfield, Quechee, South Woodstock, Plymouth, Norwich and Hanover, NH among others.

 

Great Freedom Adventures indulge cyclists who will enjoy their time as guests at inns and restaurants selected as enhancements to the stories and histories of the towns and represent the best of each locale. Because Vermonters still work with their hands, cyclists will see master artisans blowing glass at Simon Pearce and others stirring cheese curds at a cheese factory in a US President’s boyhood village.  They will sample the wares at a microbrewery and in addition to covered bridges, ride across the Floating Bridge in Brookfield which leads to a picturesque hamlet. A lunch stop takes in the Norman Rockwell setting of an ancient country store. See: http://www.greatfreedomadventures.com/vermont-bike-tours.html

 

In the region that is the birthplace of the environmental movement, Woodstock, cyclists will pause at an historic mansion boasting one of the finest collections of Hudson River School paintings in the world. And in the town itself is a remarkable diversity of well-preserved architecture enhanced by the aesthetics of the late Laurance Rockefeller who paid to have phone and electric lines buried.

 

Cyclists travel between 26 and 51 miles a day for a total of about 220 miles.

 

This program begins and ends in Woodstock, VT. Participants can take Amtrak to White River Junction, VT, or Dartmouth Coach from Logan Airport to Lebanon, NH. The closest airports are Manchester, NH, and Burlington, VT, or for smaller craft, Lebanon, NH.

 

The programs include all but one dinner so that guests can explore local eateries on their own one night. Lodging, all breakfasts, two lunches, guides, van support, entrance fees where required and other region-specific costs are included in the tour rate, with the exception of alcoholic beverages and guide gratuities.

 

Rummel, who has been arranging and running bike and other active tours for 13 years, is passionate about engaging her guests in green destinations and at a pace of low impact travel mandated by bicycle that allows the spirits of the riders to connect with the green around them.

 

Other 2011 USA bike tours include a maritime excursion on Boston’s North Shore, Vermont’s Green Mountains and Block Island on the Atlantic.

 

About Great Freedom Adventures

Great Freedom Adventures offers road bike tours with hiking and kayaking in New England and New York’s Hudson Valley in regions distinguished by diverse natural and cultural offerings. The tours are four to six days in length and are guided and supported. Please see the website for additional information and for specific information on each tour. For information please seehttp://www.greatfreedomadventures.com/.[Back to Press Releases Main]