Top Vermont Cocktail Party Event Spaces

• Spaces for 60 Guests
• 1 Event Space

Dryfter homes is a network of properties across Vermont that host weekend stays, microweddings, graduation parties, and all types of smaller events. If you're planning a smaller event on a budget, Dryfter Homes are a great, affordable option.

• Spaces for 35-150 Guests
• 6 Event Spaces

Located on the banks of the Ottauquechee River, our brew pub offers a picturesque setting for your private event. With a seasonally rotating menu featuring locally-sourced ingredients and more than a dozen beers on tap, we have plenty of option for everyone.

• Spaces for 30-200 Guests
• 9 Event Spaces

The Harpoon Taproom in Windsor, VT is an ideal space for your event. We offer a unique setting that combines the atmosphere of community with a modern, operating craft brewery. Enjoy beer brewed on-site, freshly baked pretzels, and a curated craft menu from the Harpoon Kitchen. The entire Taproom experience is built around our motto “Love Beer. Love Life.” We look forward to hosting you and your guests.

• Spaces for 150 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 1 Farm

Sky Acres Events sits on a 234-acre working farm in Washington, Vermont, where fields, forests, and streams rise toward a hillside view of the Green Mountains stretching from Mount Mansfield to Killington. Owner Cilla acquired the property, once the Sky Acres Girl Scout Camp, in 2003 and has spent years renovating it while keeping it in use as a working farm. The former camp dining hall has been restored into the Pavilion, a rustic post-and-beam space with a stone fireplace, exposed rafters, antique wagon-wheel chandeliers, and floor-to-ceiling panels that open onto the mountain views. Sky Acres Events hosts weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and other private celebrations, offering its grounds and Pavilion as a do-it-yourself rental, with access to the space the day before an event for setup and decorating.

• Spaces for 100-500 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 1 Outdoor
• 4 Total Spaces

Riverside Farm is a 700-acre wedding and event venue set against Vermont's Green Mountains in Pittsfield. The property's history dates to the mid-1800s, when its barns and outbuildings were first built; a couple discovered the abandoned farm in 2001 and undertook a restoration that preserved its New England architecture while adding modern amenities, eventually holding their own wedding there before opening it to other couples. The farm is now owned by Joe and Courtney De Sena, founders of Spartan. Riverside Farm's grounds include the Red Barn and the Stonewell Barn, both restored post-and-beam structures furnished with country antiques, along with the Stone Cellar for more intimate gatherings and a 40-acre meadow for ceremonies and receptions with panoramic mountain views. The property can host up to 500 guests and combines ceremony and reception into a single seamless event. Overnight guests can stay on-site in accommodations that include the Bridal Suite, the Groom's Cabin, the River Studio, the Caretaker's Cottage, and The Stables. Riverside Farm is a member of the Vermont Association of Wedding Professionals.

• Spaces for 50-100 Guests
• 2 Event Spaces
• 1 Outdoor
• 2 Total Spaces

Sandiwood Farm is an 80-acre working farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, run by Bob and Sara Schlosser since 1988. Set on a hilltop in Wolcott, the farm looks out over Mount Mansfield, Mt. Elmore, and the Worcester Range, with a stone arch, an open field, a small pond, thriving gardens, and an operating maple sugarbush among its ceremony sites. Weddings are hosted through three all-inclusive packages, including a forest-and-field ceremony site for up to 50 guests and a greenhouse space with a stone archway for up to 100 guests, along with elopement and micro-wedding packages for up to 10. Sara, a certified Justice of the Peace, officiates ceremonies on-site or off. Packages can include table arrangements, bridal and wedding-party bouquets, boutonnieres, and Vermont maple syrup favors, all drawn from the farm's own gardens and sugarbush. Beyond weddings, Sandiwood Farm hosts rehearsal dinners, farm-to-fork dinners, reunions, corporate gatherings, and fundraisers in its event greenhouses, and offers overnight stays in cabins and campsites scattered around the property for couples and guests extending their visit.

• Spaces for 225 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 1 Museum
• 1 Estate

Hildene is a compound word composed of two old English words: ""Hil,"" which means ""hill,"" and ""dene,"" which means ""valley with stream."" It was named after Robert and his wife Mary's Vermont home, which sits atop a hill with sweeping views of the Taconic Mountains to the west, the Green Mountains to the east, and the Battenkill River, which flows through the great Battenkill Valley below. Hildene was built by the Lincolns as a summer residence around the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Todd Lincoln was the only child born to Mary Todd Lincoln and Abraham Lincoln who lived to adulthood. As a young man in the summer of 1864, he came to Manchester to meet up with his mother and brother Tad at the Equinox Hotel, where he stayed for a few days. He returned some forty years later to purchase 392 acres of land on which he would construct what he would refer to as his ancestral home. Robert was the president of the Pullman Company at the time, which was the largest manufacturing corporation in the United States. Peggy Beckwith, Abraham Lincoln's great-granddaughter and the last Lincoln descendant to reside at Hildene, expanded the estate's land holdings by purchasing additional land. Her will stipulated that Hildene be given to the Church of Christ, Scientist in accordance with her grandmother's wishes when she died in 1975. The will stipulated that Hildene should be kept as a memorial to the Lincoln family by the Church of England. When the Church realized it was not in a financial position to do so, it didn't take long for the decision to be made, and plans were quickly put in place to sell Hildene to developers. The Church's plans for Hildene were discovered by local neighbors and community members, who fought to save the property. After three years in court, they were finally successful in obtaining the right to purchase Hildene. The Friends of Hildene, a non-profit organization, raised the funds necessary to purchase the estate in 1978, and then began the lengthy process of restoring the house and formal garden. A Georgian revival mansion and 14 historic buildings dot the 412-acre estate, which includes the home, formal garden, and observatory; the Welcome Center and The Museum Store in the historic carriage barn; the 1903 Pullman car, Sunbeam; and Hildene Farm. The estate has been in the same family for four generations. An 1832 schoolhouse still serves as a teaching greenhouse and composting facility, as well as vegetable gardens and an apple orchard in the lower portion of the property (the dene). The farm also includes a solar-powered goat dairy and cheese-making facility and a teaching greenhouse and composting facility in the lower portion of the property (the dene). Aside from hosting agricultural and environmental courses throughout the school year, the dene also serves as a classroom for Burr & Burton Academy high school students. Hildene's deep commitment to conservation, stewardship, and sustainability, as well as its mission Values into Action, are embodied in the BBA-Hildene program, which is completely immersive.

• Spaces for 200 Guests
• 1 Event Space

Windridge Tennis & Sports Camps sits on more than 250 acres of woods, hills, meadows, and playing fields in Roxbury, Vermont, with the grounds facing west toward sweeping views of the Green Mountains. Known as Teela-Wooket, the property has served as Windridge's home since 1985 and includes a timber-framed dining hall with a fieldstone fireplace and wraparound porch, 21 clay tennis courts, two full-size soccer fields, and an equestrian facility with a 26-stall barn and both indoor and outdoor riding arenas. Beyond its summer camp programs, the property has hosted corporate meetings, weddings, family reunions, and specialty camps. The dining hall seats up to 200 guests for meals and events, and The Inn at Teela-Wooket, a Vermont country inn on the grounds, is available for weddings, reunions, and small corporate gatherings. With extensive lodging in cabins, recreation halls, a field house, and a pool, the campus can support programming and events ranging from a single afternoon to multi-day stays. Located just off Exit 5 on I-89, Windridge is a short drive from Montpelier, Sugarbush, and Waitsfield, with Burlington's airport about an hour away.

• Spaces for 32-800 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 6 Ballrooms
• 3 Meeting Spaces

The Dudley H. Davis Center is the University of Vermont's central conference and event venue in Burlington, Vermont, built in 2007 as a 186,000-square-foot, environmentally conscious facility. Vaulted ceilings trimmed in local maple wood and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Green Mountains or Lake Champlain give the building its character. The center holds four ballrooms, more than seven meeting rooms, and additional smaller spaces, giving planners a range of room sizes for conferences, meetings, and campus gatherings. Rentals include tables and chairs, standard AV equipment such as podiums, microphones, projectors, and screens, flipcharts and whiteboards, and free WiFi for guests, with events able to draw on UVM Dining's catering services. The Davis Center sits on UVM's campus close to Burlington's Church Street Marketplace, Lake Champlain, and the Green Mountains.

• Spaces for 75-1,304 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 2 Theaters
• 5 Total Spaces

Capitol Center for the Arts is a performing arts venue in Concord, New Hampshire, anchored by the Chubb Theatre, originally built as the Capitol Theatre in 1927 and reopened as the nonprofit Capitol Center for the Arts in 1995 following renovation. Bank of NH Stage, a more recently renovated performance space with a main theatre, lobby, and the Cantin Room lounge, joined the campus in 2019 through a capital campaign. Beyond its performance schedule, the Capitol Center hosts weddings, business conferences, benefits, holiday parties, reunions, trade shows, and other private events. The Chubb Theatre seats up to 1,300 guests theatre-style for meetings and large gatherings. Governor's Hall, an open, historic function room, accommodates weddings and celebrations for up to 350 guests standing or 200 seated. Bank of NH Stage can be booked as a full venue for an all-inclusive ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception, or as just the Cantin Room lounge for smaller gatherings of up to 125. The Kimball House, a Victorian mansion with a formal dining room, library, parlor, and board room, suits intimate weddings for guest lists of up to 75. Every space includes access to audio/visual equipment and cash or open bar service, along with catering through the venue's sponsored Culinary Artist in Residence program or a list of local licensed caterers.

• Spaces for 165-200 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 2 Outdoor Spaces
• 1 Park

Common Ground Center is a nonprofit retreat and camp facility set on a 473-acre property in Starksboro, Vermont, about 30 minutes from Burlington. The grounds include forests, open fields, hiking trails, and a two-acre swimming pond, with views of the Hogback and Green Mountains — a backdrop couples often plan around, with many choosing September or October dates for Vermont's fall foliage. For weddings, couples can use the Hay Barn, a renovated barn with exposed beams and a cathedral-like feel for indoor ceremonies; the Dining Hall, the largest facility on site, which seats up to 165 guests and features a bamboo dance floor and a screened porch for cocktail hour; and open fields that accommodate up to 200 ceremony guests. The Eco-Lodge offers a year-round option well suited to small winter weddings. Overnight guests can stay across the property in twenty off-grid cabins, tent platforms, or the Eco-Lodge's eight private-bath guestrooms. A fully equipped commercial kitchen and wood-fired brick oven give couples the flexibility to hire their own caterer. The site is 100% solar-powered, and Common Ground Center — a nonprofit multi-age arts, education, and outdoor recreation center — also hosts youth camps, family camps, and retreats throughout the year.

• Spaces for 40-580 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 4 Hotels
• 6 Total Spaces

The Lodge at Spruce Peak, formerly known as Stowe Mountain Lodge, is a ski-in/ski-out hotel and event destination at the base of Spruce Peak Mountain in Stowe, Vermont, set within the wider Spruce Peak community of shops, restaurants, and a private golf course. The Lodge sits beneath sweeping views of Mount Mansfield and the Green Mountains. For weddings, couples can choose from a range of seasonal indoor and outdoor spaces, including the 5,959-square-foot Tamarack Ballroom, the window-lined Junior Ballroom with its adjoining terrace, and a tree-lined rink that transforms into a ceremony space for up to 300 guests. Additional venues include the Alpine Clubhouse and The Cottage, the clubhouse of the Mountain Course at Spruce Peak. Wedding planning is guided by a dedicated wedding sales manager and coordinator from inquiry through the event, supported by an in-house culinary team, an on-site pastry team for custom wedding cakes, and a full-service spa and salon that can accommodate hair and makeup for the wedding party.

• Spaces for 20-600 Guests
• 2 Event Spaces
• 1 Restaurant
• 8 Total Spaces

Killington Resort sits in Vermont's Green Mountains, known as "The Beast of the East" and the largest ski resort in the eastern United States, with more than 200 days of lift-served skiing and riding each winter and a full slate of summer activities including mountain biking, golf, and a treetop adventure course. The four-season setting gives couples and planners several distinct venues to choose from: the Peak Lodge, perched atop the mountain with panoramic views of the Green Mountains, hosts up to 200 guests for ceremonies and receptions, while the K-1 Lodge accommodates up to 300 guests with an expansive patio suited to rehearsal dinners and welcome parties. The Killington Grand Resort Hotel anchors the resort's event offerings with 200 guest rooms, a spa, and the Oscar Ballroom, along with a firepit and poolside patio for smaller gatherings. The adjoining Grand Hotel & Conference Center provides configurable meeting and banquet space for gatherings ranging from 25 to 400 guests, supported by on-site AV, catering, and a dedicated event coordinator.

• Spaces for 100-200 Guests
• 2 Event Spaces
• 2 Outdoor Spaces
• 2 Total Spaces

Bolton Valley is a year-round mountain resort in Vermont's Green Mountains, roughly 30 minutes from downtown Burlington and Lake Champlain, set among more than 5,000 acres of high mountain forest. Founded in 1966 by Ralph DesLauriers, the resort has remained family-owned for nearly six decades and is now managed by four of his children alongside a dedicated team. For weddings and private events, Bolton Valley offers two mountain venues: The Ponds, a classic outdoor ceremony and reception site overlooking a spring-fed pond with panoramic mountain views, and Timberline Lodge, the resort's newer venue with a slope-side ceremony site, an attached patio, and a reception area with panoramic mountain views. Both venues include tables, chairs, linens, and a day-of wedding coordinator, and host ceremonies and receptions across all four seasons. Couples and guests can extend their celebration with the resort's amenities, including indoor and outdoor pools, a sauna and hot tub, scenic lift rides, mountain biking, disc golf, a golf simulator, tennis and pickleball courts, and skiing and snowboarding in winter.

• Spaces for 180-350 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 1 Resort

The Atrium is an indoor event space at The Essex Resort & Spa in Essex, Vermont, encompassing 3,185 square feet and accommodating up to 350 guests. The room supports several layout styles, including rounds, rectangular tables, and mixed configurations, with a plated dinner seating as many as 180 guests at rectangular tables or 170 at rounds, and buffet-style service seating up to 150. The Atrium's reception package includes five hours of private use, reception tables and chairs, complete setup and breakdown, and a choice of white, ivory, or black linens and napkins. Every event is assigned a dedicated Event Manager, and the resort's on-site culinary team builds customizable menus using locally sourced Vermont ingredients. Couples celebrating in the Atrium can add the Celebration Suite for pre-ceremony preparations.

• Spaces for 20-150 Guests
• 1 Event Space

• Spaces for 36-250 Guests
• 3 Event Spaces
• 2 Ballrooms
• 15 Total Spaces

Set in the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, the Woodstock Inn & Resort sits along the main street of the village of Woodstock, steps from local restaurants and boutiques. Its guest rooms and event spaces reflect the legacy of Laurance and Mary Rockefeller, whose Woodstock Foundation still owns the resort and has long shaped the town's preservation and character. The resort offers 10,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor meeting and banquet space, including the Woodstock Ballroom, the Rockefeller Room, and the Country Club Ballroom, alongside garden and lawn settings such as the South Garden and Kelly Way Gardens. Wedding receptions range from intimate gatherings to celebrations of up to 225 guests, with additional event settings at the Red Barns at Kelly Way Gardens, Billings Farm & Museum, and the Saskadena Six Baselodge. Farm-fresh, seasonal cuisine anchors events at the resort, drawing on ingredients grown in its own 3-acre certified organic Kelly Way Gardens and prepared by its in-house culinary team, alongside on-site catering, floral design, and dedicated event coordinators.

• Spaces for 75-100 Guests
• 1 Event Space
• 1 Waterfront

The Gateway Center is a banquet hall on the shore of Lake Memphremagog in Newport, Vermont, with views across the water toward Owl's Head and the Canadian mainland. Glass doors along the building's north side open onto wraparound balconies, giving guests lake views right from the reception space. Operated by Newport Parks & Recreation, the Gateway Center comfortably holds up to 75 people and is available for rent year-round, making it a fit for business meetings, private parties, and other celebrations. Rental of the space includes use of the facility itself along with tables, chairs, and the on-site kitchen, which is equipped with two refrigerator/freezer units, a propane range, an electric stove and oven, and a stainless steel double sink. The Gateway Center is offered as a basic hall rental: linens, dishware, cutlery, and event staff or planners are not included, and renters arrange these separately.