Smugglers’ Notch Inn

Location. Smugglers’ Notch Inn sits at the base of Mount Mansfield in the tiny rural village of Jeffersonville, Vt., where the Brewster and Lamoille Rivers converge. The entire village of Jeffersonville, featuring antique dealers, old family farms and covered bridges, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and Smugglers’ Notch Inn is in the midst of it all. The family-friendly Smugglers’ Notch offers skiing, water parks and recreational activities three miles from the inn.
Features. This historic inn, built in 1791 and renovated in 2004, retains its classic New England style. The inn offers fireside dining in a 65-seat restaurant, a bakery, and a tavern with a pool table, foosball table, four televisions with satellite channels and live music. The bakery features freshly-baked muffins, breads and cinnamon rolls with maple frosting. room rate includes a gift card each day for use in the bakery, restaurant or tavern. Continental breakfasts and lunches are served each day in the bakery or tavern. Full dinners are offered in the restaurant and pub fare is available in the tavern each evening. Dining is also available on the screened-in porch or outdoor patio. A conference room, fax and photocopy services, and complimentary wireless Internet access is available. The living room, featuring a brick fireplace, hardwood floors and tin ceiling, an outdoor hot tub, back deck and front porch with a porch swing are available for guests’ use. Pets are not allowed at the property.

Guestrooms.Smugglers’ Notch Inn offers 11 guestrooms, renovated and decorated in rich New England colors and fabrics. All guestrooms offer private bathrooms. Satellite television with premium channels is available in all rooms. Select rooms feature a jetted tub or fireplace. All rooms offer views of the mountains.

Expert Tip. Smugglers’ Notch is infamous as the route smugglers used to carry contraband and other goods to Canada in the early 1800s. It was also used by fugitive slaves escaping to Canada, and as a popular route for smuggling liquor during Prohibition.