The Best Active Vacations

Biking inn-to-inn: Vermont is a biker's paradise. Serpentine roads wind through verdant hills and along tumbling streams. Several organizations will ferry your baggage from inn to inn; you provide the pedal power to get yourself from one point to the next.

Skiing in the Green Mountains: Vermont has nearly two dozen ski areas, offering everything from the cozy friendliness of Bolton Valley to the high-impact skiing of sprawling Killington. Vermont has long been New England's ski capital, and they've learned how to do it right. My favorite? The village of Stowe, where great skiing is combined with fine lodging and dining.