Octagon Café & Gallery — Restaurant in Stowe

If it's sunny on the peak, this is a must stop checkbox on your Stowe experience. The views are to die for,. Kick your skis off, grab a beer and a clam chowder, and head to the deck. You can see Mt Washington, or if it's a bit more cloudy, at least some adventurous free-skiers making their way up or down the peak behind the lifts.

Unfortunately, on windy or cold days, this place is just another ski lodge at the...

Great pit stop at the top of mountain before you hit Toll Road, a 15 min/4 mile blue run that transitions to green. Grab a hot coco the hit Toll Road, one of the most relaxing runs on the East Coast. It's a logging trail that has a small church about halfway down. great photo ops along the whole trail. Stowe is one of my favorites and the Toll Road is the run that makes this place...

I mean it's a lodge with great (expensive) food at the top of a mountain, so pretty awesome to start with. I reccomend finding a friend who works there to enjoy a discount that would make the food and drink normal priced but then again it is at the top of a mountain. The breakfast sandwich is as legit as it gets, and in the spring there's nothing better than a...