Swift House Inn

4-Day / 3-Night Bike Tours

Inn

• Swift House Inn, Middlebury

Rates and Dates

• $750 - Jun 8-11, Jun 29-Jul 2, Aug 10-13
• $825 - Sep 21-24, Oct 5-8

Itinerary / Distances

• Tues: Arrival Day
• Wed: 42 or 44 mi (68 or 71 km)
• Thurs: 30 or 44 (49 or 71 km)
• Fri: 21 (34 km)

Deposit

$200 per person. Final payment due 60 days prior to your tour (personal check, Visa or MasterCard).

Bike Rental

$60

Single Travelers

Supplement for guaranteed private room (when available): $150

Supplement for single travelers willing to share a room: no charge*

*This fee will be fully refunded if we find someone to share your room. See "Single Travelers" at The Details for more information

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel...
(a) at least 61 days prior to your tour, we will return 100% of your tour payments;
(b) 31-60 days from the date of your tour, we will return all of your tour payments except your deposit;
(c) 0-30 days from the date of your tour, there will be no refund of any tour payment.

Should Bike Vermont have to cancel your tour we will refund all your tour payments immediately as full settlement.

We strongly recommend you purchase Trip Cancellation Insurance as soon as possible. A detailed comparison of trip cancellation insurance policies and prices is available online and links for these sites are available at the end of the reservation page. We recommend CSA Travel Protection based on their rating by Consumer Reports. We will also send you an application form with your Confirmation.

Terrain

Easier

• Average Daily Mileage: 31 mi (50 km)
• Average Daily Mileage with Options: 36 mi (58 km)

 

4-Day / 3-Night Bike Tours Swift House Inn Middlebury, Vermont

This tour is based at one of Vermont's favorite inns. The Swift House Inn was once the home of Governor John W. Stewart, but in recent years it has been converted into a prestigious inn, with lovely bedrooms filled with antiques, comfortable common rooms, a sauna and steam room, and an intimate pub. Delicious dinners are served in the handsome cherry-paneled dining room, and your entire stay is always enhanced by the warmth and friendliness of your delightful hosts, Dan and Michele Brown.

Part of the pleasure of this tour is exploring the Town of Middlebury. Former grist and woolen mills now house Vermont’s best collection of sophisticated craft shops and galleries, including the Vermont State Craft Center, where you will find excellent woodworking, ceramics, furniture, jewelry, photography, prints, antiques and folk art. This is also the home of prestigious Middlebury College, with its distinctive campus, broad manicured lawns and handsome buildings fashioned from locally quarried gray stone.

Once we cycle across the Pulp Mill Covered Bridge, the town almost immediately gives way to wide fertile valleys dotted with productive dairy farms and apple orchards. The roads wind through pastures and cultivated fields, while in the distance we are treated with spectacular views of the Adirondacks and Green Mountains.

We ride past the Morgan Horse Farm; follow the Otter Creek to Vergennes (America's smallest city); and have the option of riding out to beautiful Button Bay on Lake Champlain where we visit the Maritime Museum. On another day, we pass by Shard Villa, an imposing "surely haunted" Gothic mansion, picnic on the sandy beach at Lake Dunmore, and take a short hike up to the Falls of Lana. You will surely agree that this tour combines all things that make Vermont such a perfect place to bike.