Most changes in the Mad River Valley are quiet triumphs: a child taking her first jump off the Waitsfield covered bridge, the hatching of a new chick, the perfectly ripe tomato on your vine. But sometimes, there are changes ….

There is a fabulous Farmers Market in Waitsfield center every Saturday morning, from mid-May to early October, in the middle of the town green. You’ll find…

August in the MRV is for dunking in the numerous swimming holes, hiking the local peaks, tubing down the Mad River, golfing, soaring, fishing, frisbee golfing, and in general spending as much time as possible outdoors. You’re likely to work up an appetite with all…

Travel + Leisure magazine has made official what we’ve known all along—naming our very own Mad River Valley the “most beautiful place” in Vermont…..

Ready for summer in the Valley? Come on down to Round up on the River. It’s a community event….

It can be hard to quantify the notion of community, but on a recent spring day at the Warren-Sugarbush airport in Warren, Vermont, it arrived in the form of two 500-pound wooden….

A local author, Catherine Drake, just published her first novel.  We are thrilled to have more romance writers in the greater Mad River Valley (her book takes place in Waterbury and surrounds).

True ski addicts know. We say things like, “How many days?” starting in February. We look at the beep tally on the RFID gate. We often have a quiver of skis for all the conditions of the northeast…..

Recently, 1824 House Inn + Barn, a luxurious B&B with a rustic barn event space nestled amidst a rolling landscape, offered a dream wedding package giveaway! Couples had to submit a video …..

We are in the thick of it. Mud season, that is, and “thick” is not nearly a powerful enough word to describe the quality, texture, and sheer voluminousness of the soupy morass that now counts for roads throughout the Mad River Valley.

Sharon’s version is accurate—we just jumped in—why not?

It was Covid; we couldn’t travel or even go out to dinner. Plus, our book club had just read another critically acclaimed but sad and depressing novel. So, I thought—we need more books that make people happy.

It feels fitting that the first book in the Mad River Romance series features covered bridges. The state of Vermont boasts more than 100 covered bridges, and the Mad River Valley, where our romance novels largely take place, has eight to call their own. Each bridge is unique in size and character….

When Judy asked me ever-so-casually if I’d be interested in partnering with her on a romance novel, I didn’t overthink my response. The time was November 2020, which meant we were still mired….

There are no traffic lights in the Mad River Valley. Not a one. There are stop signs and yield signs, cow-crossing signs and speed limit signs, but no traffic lights. It’s hard to know how important…