Top Ludlow Venues

• Spaces for 250 Guests

Barnard Inn Restaurant occupies a brick building constructed in 1796 in Barnard, Vermont, where Chef Will Dodson has led the kitchen for more than 25 years. The restaurant is known for seasonal cuisine prepared fresh daily from local ingredients, an approach recognized when the restaurant was named Best Vermont Restaurant by msn.com in 2015. Guests can dine in the historic dining room or the on-site tavern, and gluten-free options are available at every meal. Beyond nightly dinners, Barnard Inn hosts private events, offering private dining rooms, personal chef services, and catering for holiday parties, weddings, and company celebrations, with menus tailored to each occasion.

• Spaces for 115 Guests

Set on five acres in the Green Mountains of Vermont, The Trailside Inn is a farmhouse-style property in Killington that hosts wedding weekends, corporate retreats, and family gatherings with exclusive use of the grounds. Couples exchange vows by a brook lined with birch and maple trees, then move to the deck and backyard for cocktail hour before dinner and dancing under a 2,400-square-foot event tent illuminated by paper lanterns. At the heart of the inn is the Great Room, where a wood fire warms guests during welcome parties, rehearsal dinners, and farewell brunches, and multiple fire pits on the property host nightly bonfires and s'mores. A renovated lower-level game room, with foosball, pool, Giant Jenga, and cornhole, keeps the celebration going after the reception ends. The property's 42 bedrooms, spread across a 28-room main inn, a 9-bedroom guesthouse, and a 5-bedroom Farmhouse, sleep up to 102 guests, allowing wedding parties to book out the entire inn for the weekend. The Trailside Inn has been named to The Knot's Best of Weddings Hall of Fame for 2018 through 2023.

• Spaces for 20-240 Guests
• 2 Outdoor Spaces
• 3 Meeting Spaces
• 4 Venues with Activities

Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) is a nature center in Quechee, Vermont, set along the Ottauquechee River near Quechee Gorge, with live bird exhibits, a Forest Canopy Walk, and connecting trails. The nonprofit's mission is to motivate individuals and communities to care for the environment through education, research, and avian wildlife rehabilitation. The Nature Center hosts weddings, conferences, and private events across several distinct spaces. The August Pavilion, a covered open-air structure surrounded by trees, accommodates up to 125 seated guests for ceremonies, receptions, and conferences, while the indoor Neale Pavilion offers a naturally lit space, decorated with a rotating art exhibit, for up to 80 guests. Smaller gatherings can use the Sustainable Room or the ADA-accessible Outdoor Classroom, and the wooded HawkFly clearing serves as an intimate outdoor ceremony site. Wedding and event packages can include access to the Forest Canopy Walk, a raptor meet-and-greet, and a live raptor presentation with VINS educators and bird ambassadors, giving guests the chance to connect with wildlife as part of their celebration.

• Spaces for 500 Guests

Set on Hunter Park Road in Manchester Center, Vermont, the Northshire Civic Center is a nonprofit civic center built around Riley Rink, home to hockey, figure skating, and learn-to-skate programs each winter. In spring the rink surface gives way to turf for field sports and training, and by summer the grounds transform again into what the venue calls Southern Vermont's premier festival venue. Every July, the property hosts the two-day Dead of Summer Music Festival, and each year it is also home to the three-day Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots festival (GMBR), which draws more than 3,000 people to camp, dance, and take in performances from regional artists. The Northshire Civic Center also welcomes craft fairs and community gatherings on its grounds throughout the season. Just minutes from downtown Manchester and within easy reach of Bromley and Stratton mountains, the Northshire Civic Center describes itself as more than an ice rink or event venue — a community gathering place where neighbors, families, and visitors come together to play, compete, and celebrate throughout the year.

• Spaces for 72-200 Guests
• 1 Hotel
• 1 Outdoor
• 2 Total Spaces

Built in 1793 as the home of Colonel Joseph Marsh, Vermont's first lieutenant governor, the Quechee Inn at Marshland Farm is a Georgian-style property listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The inn overlooks Dewey's Mill Pond and the Ottauquechee River, surrounded by spruce and hardwood trees on its Vermont farmstead grounds. Wide pine floors, Queen Anne furnishings, and period antiques carry the inn's 19th-century character through its 22 guest rooms and 3 suites, updated with modern conveniences like wireless internet and air conditioning. The inn hosts destination weddings for up to 200 guests, with full-service catering served in a framed steel tent set on a brick courtyard beside the property's historic red barn, or across the meadows and back fields for ceremonies. Indoors, the Main Dining Room, Porter Library, Common Room, and Gallery Dining Room host smaller receptions and rehearsal dinners, with an adjoining awning-covered patio for cocktail hour. Wedding parties can take over the inn entirely from Friday dinner through Sunday morning. In the afternoons, guests gather in the Common Room for fresh baked cookies and, in colder months, a wood-burning fireplace.

• Spaces for 170 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Barn

The Inn at Manchester is a historic bed & breakfast in Manchester Village, Vermont, built in 1890 and welcoming guests as an inn since 1978. Over more than a century, the property passed through several stewards — from Mrs. Mathilda Shepard, who built the original house, to the Rosenberg family, who opened the Inn at Manchester in December 1978 and renovated it with the Vermont Division of Historic Preservation in 1985. In 2015, the Hanes family, then owners of the Inn, added the Celebration Barn as a dedicated event space alongside the property's Carriage House suites. The Celebration Barn offers 2,500 square feet of floor space plus an outdoor terrace and fire pit, with seating configurations that can be tailored to a couple's style. It accommodates gatherings from small, intimate ceremonies to celebrations for up to 170 guests, and also hosts corporate meetings. The Inn at Manchester additionally offers an elopement package for couples planning a simpler, more spontaneous wedding. Since 2018, the Inn has been owned and operated by the Maggiotto family, who continue its tradition of hospitality in the Green Mountains of Vermont.

• Spaces for 20-400 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 6 Museums
• 6 Total Spaces

Southern Vermont Arts Center sits on more than 120 acres at the foot of the Taconic Mountains in Manchester, Vermont, on a campus that began in 1917 as the summer estate of Gertrude Divine Webster. Southern Vermont Artists acquired the property in 1950 and built it into a nonprofit arts center with galleries, an outdoor sculpture garden, and trails connecting to Equinox Mountain. The estate's original 1917 mansion, Yester House, now anchors the campus with ten galleries and curATE Café, and can host private events. The Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum, designed by architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen and opened in 2000, houses the center's permanent collection of more than 900 works and includes a meeting room and kitchenette for private events. The Louise Arkell Pavilion, dedicated in 1970, is a 400-seat auditorium with professional-quality acoustics and retractable side walls that open to the back lawn for tented events. Outdoors, the campus includes what the arts center describes as the largest sculpture garden in Vermont. Together, the buildings and grounds host weddings, receptions, and private events, with catering handled by Church Street Hospitality, the center's exclusive on-site caterer.

Your wedding day should be the most memorable day of your life! Our idyllic location in the Battenkill River Valley, with a panoramic view of the Green Mountains, couldn't be more perfect. Take your vows in a private garden, on a bridge overlooking our trout pond, or on the broad grass. Then enjoy a meal poolside before dancing the night away in our magnificent 100-year-old event barn. You have complete ownership of the property! With only one wedding each month, we can ensure that our venue is always immaculate for you and your guests. We are the ideal setting to conduct your rehearsal dinner, ceremony, reception, and farewell brunch all in one gorgeous location as a full weekend rental! Come check it out for yourself! From Vermont's first Morgan Horse stable to your beautiful wedding site. This century-old barn has been completely refurbished while still maintaining its rustic appeal. Our barn can accommodate up to 200 people and will have them talking about your perfect celebration for years! Our beautiful and comfortable late-nineteenth-century barn housing is inspired by the natural beauty of our surrounds. We want you to have the impression that the entire property is yours. Our area is suitable for you and your wedding party or close family, with accommodations for up to 22 guests. Whether it's bringing in the perfect chef, yoga instructor, stylist, speaker, floral designer, or instructor, our skilled planning staff is always ready to custom tailor to your preferences. All we need is a little information about your group, and then we'll work together to plan your ideal retreat, reunion, or vacation.

• Spaces for 100-500 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 2 Barns
• 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.

An idyllic Vermont vacation destination. Set high atop a Central Vermont Mountain, on 700 private acres of woods & meadow, with sweeping views of the surrounding Green Mountains and a pristine 740 acre lake – Mountain Top is one of Vermont’s most unique and spectacular destinations.

• Spaces for 225 Guests
• 1 Museum
• 1 Event Space
• 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 75-175 Guests
• 1 Bar
• 1 Event Space
• 2 Country Clubs

Newport Golf Club is an 18-hole, par 71 golf course designed by Phil Wogan, set on 143 acres in the Sugar River Valley of Newport, New Hampshire. The property spans a varied landscape — portions carved from a forest of mature pine, hemlock, oak, maple, cherry, and white birch, others built on open pastureland, with the Sugar River winding through the grounds and bent grass greens, tees, and fairways throughout. The course has been featured in NH Golf Magazine and serves golfers of all skill levels across the Dartmouth–Lake Sunapee Region. The club's two dedicated event spaces accommodate celebrations of varying sizes, from large receptions to intimate gatherings. A professional event coordinator and staff support each occasion, and the club welcomes local vendors for catering, florals, lighting, music, and photography. Newport Golf Club hosts weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, proms, reunions, business luncheons, and baby showers throughout the year.

• Spaces for 125 Guests

Amee Farm Lodge is a historic Vermont farmhouse thoughtfully restored and set on Route 100 in Pittsfield, in the heart of the Green Mountains. The property overlooks a pond and the surrounding countryside, with common spaces designed for gathering by the hearth and mornings that open onto mountain light. The lodge offers 15 deluxe guest rooms spread across three floors, each finished with wide-plank pine floors, handcrafted furniture, memory foam mattresses, and down comforters. Guests staying at the lodge also have access to shared common areas throughout the farmhouse. Amee Farm Lodge hosts bike tours, wellness and yoga retreats, family reunions, and corporate events on-site, and serves as the accommodations partner for weddings held nearby at Riverside Farm, where lodging guests receive a Vermont continental breakfast and a dedicated innkeeper.

• Spaces for 125-300 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 2 Resorts
• 2 Meeting Spaces

Set in Ludlow, Vermont, Okemo Mountain Resort pairs the scenery of the Green Mountains with full-service event spaces for weddings, group gatherings, and corporate retreats. The resort's venues range from The Roundhouse, an octagonal banquet facility with 270 degrees of mountain views and a stone hearth fireplace, to the Summit Lodge, reached via the Bubble Scenic Skyride and perched atop Okemo Mountain with sweeping views of the Green Mountains and glimpses of New Hampshire. Farm-to-fork local cuisine and a slopeside village set the backdrop for both intimate and large celebrations across all four seasons. Guests can extend a wedding weekend or corporate retreat with mountain biking, hiking, scenic chairlift rides, ice skating, and swimming, and groups booking 10 or more rooms can unlock discounted lodging.

• Spaces for 150 Guests

• Spaces for 250 Guests