• 🎉 Major Festivals & Fairs
  Vermont Maple Festival
  📍 St. Albans
  📅 April 25–27, 2025
  Celebrating its 58th year, this festival features sugarhouse tours, live entertainment, a photo contest, a sappy art contest, and a fiddler’s variety show.
  Vermont Dairy Festival
  📍 Enosburg Falls
  📅 June 6–8, 2025
  A community celebration with pancake breakfasts, super bingo, fireworks, and live music.
  Quechee Hot Air Balloon, Craft & Music Festival
  📍 Quechee
  📅 June 20–22, 2025
  Vermont’s longest-running hot air balloon festival, featuring colorful balloon launches, live entertainment, craft vendors, and children’s activities. Vermont Tourism
  Jenny Brook Family Bluegrass Festival
  📍 Tunbridge
  📅 June 25–29, 2025
  A five-day bluegrass music festival with national, regional, and local talent, along with craft vendors and food booths.
  Best of Vermont Summer Festival
  📍 Ludlow
  📅 August 23–24, 2025
  Features over 125 vendors, live music, antique tractors, classic cars, hot air balloons, a beer garden, artisans, children’s activities, and local chef specialties. Vermont Tourism
  Champlain Valley Fair
  📍 Essex Junction
  📅 August 22–31, 2025
  A ten-day fair with entertainment, midway rides, cattle shows, parades, and food vendors.
  Caledonia County Fair
  📍 Lyndonville
  📅 August 20–24, 2025
  Features entertainment, mini pulls, pony pulls, ox shows, and food vendors.
  Vermont State Fair
  📍 Rutland
  📅 August 15–19, 2025
  A five-day event featuring a demolition derby, professional rodeo, motorsports show, concerts, carnival rides, food, and vendors.
  
  🤠 Rodeos
  Pond Hill Pro Rodeo Series
  📍 Castleton
  📅 Saturdays, June 28 – August 30, 2025
  Saturday-night pro rodeos held for 10 weeks each summer at Castleton’s Pond Hill Ranch, offering big sky views and authentic cowboy energy. pondhillranch.com+2New England+2AllEvents+2
  Vermont State Fair Rodeo
  📍 Rutland
  📅 During Vermont State Fair, August 15–19, 2025
  A professional rodeo event featuring traditional rodeo competitions as part of the Vermont State Fair festivities.
  
  🏛️ Expositions & Trade Shows
  Champlain Valley Craft Show and Antique Expo
  📍 Essex Junction
  📅 October 17–19, 2025
  Hosts more than 150 of the finest artists and craftsmen, along with antique dealers.
  Vermont Steampunk Expo
  📍 Essex Junction
  📅 November 8–9, 2025
  An annual festival featuring period games, musicians, dancers, acrobats, historical demos, encampments, jousting, and more. FanCons.comVermont Gatherings
  Vermont Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Expo
  📍 Essex Junction
  📅 April 26–27, 2025
  A convention celebrating science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres with various exhibitors and activities. FanCons.com
  Vermont Manufacturing Summit
  📍 Location TBA
  📅 November 19–20, 2025
  A summit focusing on manufacturing in Vermont, bringing together industry professionals and stakeholders. Vermont Chamber of Commerce