R
ide straight from New York’s Penn Station to
Vermont’s Killington Resort all year.
With 200 trails spanning seven mountains,
Vermont’s Killington Grand Resort Hotel is a
world-famous ski destination. But there’s plenty
to do there in the summer months too—and Amtrak
can get you there
year-round.
Killington’s
Adventure Center,
which opened in
2016, offers a
wide—and some-
times wild—array of
activities: an 18-hole
golf course; scenic
lift and zipline rides;
the Beastcoaster, a 4,800-ft.-long roller coaster that
streaks through woodlands, making 360-degree turns;
gemstone mining and panning for gold at Roaring
Brook Mines; Skye Bump trampoline and bungee jump
system; Terra tubing (year-round snowboarding);
mountain biking; ropes courses; and fishing, kayaking
and paddle boarding on Snowshed Pond.
And all year
long, after a day of
stimulating sports
and views, you can
relax in a 75-ft.
heated pool,
sauna, hot tub or
around the fire pit,
gazing upon the
majestic Green
Mountains before retiring to your hotel room, studio,
condominium or private home rental at the sustainably
built, green-hotel-certified resort.
To travel straight from New York-Penn Station to
Killington Grand Hotel Resort, make your Amtrak reser-
vation through Rutland, Vermont, to Killington. If a
reservation is made to Killington, Gramps Shuttle is
notified and will be at the station to pick up passen-
gers—year round, every day of the week. For more
information on
arrivals and
departures, visit
Amtrak.com, go
to Destinations,
choose Northeast
Stations and type
in KLT.
Amtrak.com
All Aboard for
KILLINGTON!
Ask a Local
Originally from Maine, Kate McCarthy lived all over
the United States before settling in Montpelier in 2011
as the sustainable communities director for the Vermont
Natural Resources Council, a statewide nonprofit
environmental advocacy organization.
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My job is about living and building sustainably and taking
care of the places we live in and love.
Living here allows me to do what’s important to me personally
and professionally: live more sustainably by driving less, patron-
izing local businesses and being connected to community members.
I walk to work, enjoy local restaurants and run into people I
know on the street. There’s energy being put into downtown,
including farmers’ markets and festivals. There’s bicycling
infrastructure, and good restaurants opening up too. It’s a compact
downtown with surrounding nature to enjoy. There are lots of
beautiful, quiet, water-paddle places. When snow’s on the ground,
there’s cross-country skiing everywhere. We’re the smallest capital
city in the country, but the only one without a McDonald’s.
If I look uphill from my house, I see a mountain range. If I look
downhill, I see downtown. I love having access to both. I like to get
out and about on Saturday mornings and walk to the Birch Grove
Bakery or the Bohemian Bakery.
I take visitors to Three Penny Taproom, which serves local
food and brews that have won international regard. It’s fun
to show off Vermont’s beers to people who have read about them
before but haven’t ever tried them before. They’l