Fairlee

Understand

History One of the New Hampshire grants, Fairlee was chartered by Governor Benning Wentworth in 1761 and awarded to Josiah Channey, Joseph Hubbard and 62 others. It was first settled in 1766. In 1797, the western half of the grant was set off as West Fairlee. The population was 575 by 1859, when it had several sawmills, a gristmill, and an establishment for lead pipe and pumps. The Fairlee Railroad Depot was built in 1848 by the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers Railroad. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, it is the oldest surviving railroad structure along the Connecticut River.

Get in

By car

Getting into Fairlee by car is the best option. It is right of Interstate 91 on exit 15. The travel on I-95 is usually pretty minimal in Vermont, although it can get a bit crowded when coming through Connecticut and Massachusetts.

By plane

Vermont's Burlington International Airport (BTV) on, is the hub for Vermont's incoming and outgoing traffic. There are several main service providers, including: JetBlue; Continental; Delta; and American Airlines are just a few. From the airport, travellers have the option of taking a taxi, bus, or car rental to Fairlee. Considering the hour and 40 minutes drive, the best option would mostly likely be renting a car. See BTV's car rental options here:

Get around

By bicycle

The most fun and most approved by conservationists method to travel around Fairlee is by bicycle. Unfortunately, there are no renting shops near-by, so you'll have to supply your own. The circumference of the lake is roughly 5 miles, so a morning bike around the hilly mountainside is just the thing to get your blood pumping. Within a few miles from anywhere around the lake is the town making the bike a viable option for travel.

By car

Traveling by car is probably the most popular way to get around in Fairlee. The drives are short but a car also provides you with an option to hop onto Interstate 95 and go to any number of activities in the surrounding area. All in all, this is probably your best bet to survive all weather and all distances.

By snowmobile

Fairlee is a fairly rural town, so when the heart of winter hits central Vermont, sometimes the only option is to go over the snow, rather than through it. Once again, there's no renting available, but a snowmobile is the best way to beat the difficult winter roads, and is considered completely acceptable by locals. Beware exiting the frozen lake through resident's beach fronts, though, some residents take trespassing matters into their gun-owning hands.