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Famous Vermont ski resorts, Christmas card scenery, old-fashioned sleigh rides, and tall stands of pine trees are blessedly still a big part of a Vermont Christmas.

Take a nostalgic virtual holiday tour of winter fun with a look back at Christmas past that still exists in snow-covered Vermont ...



DID YOU KNOW? Vermont Christmas fun facts

"White Christmas" (1954) : Holiday movie magic in imaginary Vermont.

• The movie classic "White Christmas" centers around the Columbia Inn in Pine Tree, VT, but don't look forward to visiting any time soon. Thanks to set designers at Paramount studios the town and inn are both entirely fictional.

• Come for the annual Christmas parade. Stay for one of the nation's most fun and unusual holiday traditions. It's Middlebury's holiday scavenger hunt where lucky winners receive $100 in "Middlebury Money" that can be redeemed at stores around town during A Very Merry Middlebury.

• President Calvin Coolidge lit the very first National Christmas Tree in 1923. It was a 48-foot balsam fir brought from Vermont, Coolidge's home state.


More information about Christmas in VT around the Web:

Christmas in Burlington - Check out the annual Santa Parade in December then party 'round the clock in downtown Burlington on New Year's Eve featuring artists and singers of all stripes appearing from noon to 1AM.

Christmas in Vermont - Find top destinations throughout the state for celebrating the holidays as the Green Mountain State is covered in white.

Christmas at Billings Farm - Visit the festively-decorated farmhouse for horse-drawn sleigh rides. and special holiday programs and activities during the season including Wassail Weekend.

Christmas Tree Farms in Vermont - Where to find precut and cut-your-own Christmas tree farms throughout the state including directions, contact details and those offering entertainment, sleigh rides and seasonal refreshments.

also see in Travel -> Vermont Tourist Attractions

Christmas in the Northeast & New England