Top Vermont Sweet 16 Venues

• Spaces for 50 Guests

Tucked into the natural beauty of central Vermont, The Woods Lodge offers indoor and outdoor spaces for weddings, private parties, corporate retreats, and celebrations of life. The Lodge's versatile grounds suit both an intimate indoor gathering and a sun-drenched outdoor celebration, with breakout areas and expansive grounds that also lend themselves to corporate retreats and team-building sessions. Weddings at The Woods Lodge range from an outdoor ceremony surrounded by nature to a cozy indoor reception, with the Lodge providing a flexible canvas for both ceremony and celebration. On-site catering includes grazing tables, passed hors d'oeuvres, stationary appetizer displays, and banquet or buffet service, alongside a private chef option for smaller gatherings — all built around vegan, vegetarian, and other dietary accommodations. A well-stocked bar offers spirits, wine, and Vermont craft beer, with outdoor bar service available on fair-weather days and a mobile bar option for events held off-site. Beyond event hosting, The Woods Lodge also operates cottages and apartments for nightly and extended stays, each with a full kitchen, giving guests a place to settle in before or after their event in Northfield, Vermont.

• Spaces for 4-125 Guests
• 1 Hotel
• 1 Historic Space

The Green Mountain Inn is a historic inn set on Main Street in Stowe, Vermont, spanning 101 guest rooms, suites, apartments, and townhouses across eight buildings. The property has been voted Best Hotel/Inn in Stowe and is ranked the #1 resort in Stowe on TripAdvisor. For weddings and private celebrations, the inn offers several distinct settings. 18 Main pairs a crackling fireplace with hardwood floors and windows overlooking Main Street, suiting wedding dinners and receptions. The Village Room, tucked in a quiet corner of the Main Inn with vintage brass chandeliers, antique sconces, and French doors, works as both a ceremony space and a dance-floor-ready reception room with its own built-in bar. Outdoors, Mansfield Gardens offers a private lawn with a stone pathway and garden arbor for ceremonies and cocktail hours amid seasonal blooms. Couples planning something smaller can exchange vows in the Library and Living Room, an intimate setting suited to elopements, or book the inn's Country Inn Elopement Package for a couple and up to four guests. Beyond weddings, the inn accommodates corporate retreats, team meetings, birthday celebrations, and family reunions, with catering and event planning support throughout.

• Spaces for 180-200 Guests
• 1 Hotel
• 1 Ballroom
• 1 Meeting Space

Killington Mountain Lodge, Tapestry Collection by Hilton sits on the 6th hole of Killington Golf Course in Vermont's Green Mountains, less than two miles from Killington Ski Area and near hiking and biking trails for all skill levels. The 102-room lodge is built around a fireplace lounge and a 20-person hot tub, giving groups a relaxed mountain base after a day on the slopes or trails. On site, Moose & Maple restaurant and bar serve locally inspired breakfast and dinner favorites alongside craft beers and fine wines, and The Coffee Bar handles morning coffee and pastries. For meetings and celebrations, the lodge's ballroom can be used as one open room or divided into smaller sections, accommodating groups of up to 180 guests.

• Spaces for 50-100 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 2 Farms
• 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 220 Guests

Ohana Family Camp is a week-long family retreat on Lake Fairlee in Vermont, run by the Aloha Foundation. Its name comes from the Hawaiian word for family, community, and a circle of good friends, and the camp brings families and friends of all ages together to reconnect outdoors. The property sits with the foothills of the Green Mountains to the west and Lake Fairlee below, with scenic back roads and hiking trails minutes away. Families stay in simple cabins with fieldstone fireplaces, kitchenettes, and one to four bedrooms, or in one of six platform tents with four twin beds each, electricity, and covered porches. The Main Lodge sits at the center of the upper camp, with a large meeting and dining area, a central fireplace, a spacious porch, and the main kitchen. Meals are served family-style in the camp's classic dining hall, which features a grand stone fireplace and a wide covered porch overlooking the lake. Days at Ohana are built around counselor-led activities including canoeing, kayaking, sailing, swimming, archery, tennis, and disc golf, along with arts and crafts, a high ropes and climbing course, and open time on the waterfront and in the game room and library. Evenings bring campfires, s'mores, and programs such as marionette shows around the Main Lodge.

• Spaces for 250-300 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Barn
• 1 space at this venue

Champlain Valley Alpacas is a family-owned, 80-acre working farm in the Green Mountains of Vermont, run by the same family since 1998, where alpacas and grass-fed beef cattle are raised alongside a small vineyard. In 2011 the family opened the Vermont Wedding Barn, a do-it-yourself event venue seating up to 300 guests for weddings, proms, quinceañeras, birthday parties, anniversaries, and other celebrations. Couples choose their ceremony setting from options that include an open field or the property's own vineyard, both with views of the Adirondacks, and can decorate under a Pagoda-style redwood arbor or a rustic Adirondack-style arbor. The barn itself comes pre-lit with soft white string lighting and includes a contained bar area and a separate DJ or band space, along with round and rectangular tables and up to 250 complimentary white chairs. A signature feature of a Champlain Valley Alpacas wedding is the farm's alpaca herd, which guests can meet and photograph, including the venue's "Running of the Alpacas" moment. Wedding parties are given access to the property for four days — Thursday and Friday for setup and rehearsal, Saturday for the event, and Sunday for cleanup — and the bride and bridesmaids can stay overnight in the property's complimentary Poolside Cottage.

• Spaces for 200 Guests

Set in the heart of Grafton Village in southern Vermont, The Grafton Inn has welcomed guests since 1801, making it one of the oldest inns in the country. Brothers Francis and Harlan Phelps expanded the property in the late 1800s, adding the third floor and porches that still define its look today, and the Inn's historic guest list has included Ulysses S. Grant, Daniel Webster, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. After decades of decline, the Windham Foundation purchased and restored the Inn in 1965, preserving its country-inn character while modernizing its individually decorated rooms. The Foundation continues to own and operate the property today as the cornerstone of the village. For weddings and private events, the Inn pairs hand-hewn beams and antique furnishings with spaces like the Phelps Barn, the Windham Foundation Room, and the 1801 Tavern's dining rooms, alongside outdoor settings including a swimming pond, community garden, and courtyards. Full-property buyouts, on-site catering and bar service, and a dedicated wedding manager round out the offering, with guest rooms and a full country breakfast available for wedding parties staying on site.

• Spaces for 100 Guests

Tucked into the natural beauty of central Vermont, The Woods Lodge hosts weddings, private parties, corporate retreats, and celebrations of life in a warm, thoughtfully designed setting. Couples can exchange vows outdoors surrounded by nature or gather for a cozier indoor celebration, with indoor and outdoor areas suited to both intimate gatherings and larger social events. On-site catering is built around customized menus, ranging from grazing tables and passed hors d'oeuvres to full banquets and buffets, with vegan, vegetarian, and other dietary accommodations available on request. The Lodge's bar service offers a rotating selection of Vermont craft beers, wine, and spirits alongside custom cocktails, and can also travel off-site with fully-insured, licensed bartending staff. Beyond event space, The Woods Lodge offers on-site lodging, including cottages and apartments, so wedding parties and retreat groups can extend their stay at the property itself.

• Spaces for 50-200 Guests
• 1 Barn
• 2 Farms
• 2 Total Spaces

Built in 1883 by Elmer A. Darling as a working farm supplying his Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City, the Inn at Mountain View Farm sits on 440 acres in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, near East Burke. The property's cow barn — once home to 100 Jersey cows — remains one of the largest farm structures ever built in Vermont and is considered a landmark for barn design and history. A carriage barn, a Morgan horse barn, and a restored Creamery frame the farm's historic courtyard. For weddings and receptions, the historic Morgan Horse barn offers a rustically elegant setting for up to 200 guests with dancing, while the fireplaced Willoughby Room inside the Inn suits sit-down dinners for 40 to 50 guests. The property also hosts family reunions, corporate retreats, business meetings, and memorial services, with the Threshing Barn and front patio available for rehearsal dinners and smaller private parties. The Inn offers 14 guest rooms and suites, and its 440 acres provide direct access to the Kingdom Trails network, with Burke Mountain ten minutes away. The Inn at Mountain View Farm is a member of the Vermont Association of Wedding Professionals.

• Spaces for 30-500 Guests
• 1 Bar
• 8 Hotels
• 9 Total Spaces

Burke Mountain Hotel & Conference Center sits mid-mountain at Burke Mountain Resort in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, a four-season, ski-in/ski-out and bike-in/bike-out property with 116 guest rooms ranging from studios to three-bedroom suites. For ceremonies, the hotel's Pavilion Landing sits at 2,600 feet in elevation with views of Willoughby Gap and is available May through October, while the post-and-beam Day Lodge — with its two stone fireplaces and second-floor perch over the mountain vistas — serves as an indoor ceremony site or backup location. The Ballroom, wrapped in 270 degrees of floor-to-ceiling windows facing both the Willoughby Gap and the slopeside landscape, is the hotel's most popular space for wedding receptions, large conferences, and meetings, and pairs with the adjoining Darling Room for cocktail hours and welcome parties. Smaller gatherings can turn to Willoughby's, a slopeside room with a built-in custom bar and direct patio access, or First 13, a private space attached to the View Pub with a gas fireplace, popular for rehearsal dinners and after-parties. For meetings and conferences, the hotel offers more than 8,000 square feet of space, including breakout rooms and outdoor areas, with high-speed internet, A/V and telecommunications capabilities, and on-site catering and guest rooms.

• Spaces for 500 Guests

Park-McCullough Historic Governor's Mansion is a 35-room Second Empire mansion in North Bennington, Vermont, built between 1864 and 1865 for attorney and entrepreneur Trenor W. Park. The home was later expanded and renovated in 1889-1890 by Park's daughter Eliza and her husband John G. McCullough to host President Benjamin Harrison's 1891 visit for the Bennington Monument dedication. Direct descendants lived in the house for a century until 1965, when it passed to the Park-McCullough House Association, and it is now recognized as one of New England's finest and best-preserved Victorian mansions. The property offers four main event spaces for weddings and private events: the historic mansion itself, formal manicured gardens, a wrap-around veranda for cocktails and touring, and a newly renovated Carriage Barn with a full catering kitchen, restrooms, a hardwood dance floor, heat, air conditioning, and wi-fi. The mansion and grounds host weddings, rehearsal dinners, corporate retreats, nonprofit fundraisers, and celebrations of all kinds throughout the year. No vendor fees are charged, though food must come from a licensed restaurant or caterer and alcohol from a Vermont-licensed vendor.

• Spaces for 200 Guests
• 1 Barn
• 1 Historic Space

The Inn at Round Barn Farm is a historic wedding venue and bed & breakfast set on 45 acres in Vermont's Mad River Valley. Its centerpiece, the Round Barn, was built in 1910 as a dairy barn and is one of only five remaining round barns in the state, now restored to host weddings, concerts, and private events across its Milking Parlor and Hayloft levels. The property's certified organic vegetable gardens supply the in-house Round Barn Culinary Team for farm-to-table dining, while the surrounding grounds of ponds, meadows, and gardens offer a backdrop for outdoor ceremonies and cocktail hours through every season, including a snow-covered winter setting. Guests can extend their stay in the Inn's 12 guest rooms, each individually decorated, with breakfast, afternoon cookies, and evening hors d'oeuvres included. The Inn at Round Barn Farm hosts only one wedding reception at a time, and its event coordinating team oversees planning from booking through the event.

• Spaces for 120 Guests

Vermont Grange Center is a rural community center in Brookfield, Vermont, set on five acres in the state's farm country and available for private rental from May through October. The property centers on the Butler Building, a recreation hall with a stage, tables and chairs, and a large commercial kitchen suited for weddings, meetings, and celebrations, alongside a historic mansion with three meeting rooms, bedrooms that sleep 15, and a covered porch. Eight rustic cabins provide 96 beds for overnight guests, complemented by a shower building, a Nurse's Cabin with its own bathroom, and nine camper hookups with electric, water, and sewer service. Outdoors, an open-air chapel with a podium and benches offers a quiet setting for ceremonies, and a recreation area with a firepit, picnic tables, and swing sets rounds out the grounds. Rental includes access to all of the property's facilities, and renters may self-cater in the on-site commercial kitchen or bring in an outside caterer.

• Spaces for 30-100 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Historic Space
• 1 Garden

Built in 1949 as one of Stowe's original ski lodges, Timberholm Inn sits on a wooded hillside between historic Stowe Village and Mount Mansfield, with views of the Worcester Mountain Range. The Stowe Historical Society recognizes the property for its place in the town's post-war ski-lodge era, and its knotty pine interiors and large fieldstone Great Room fireplace still reflect that original character alongside modern updates like WiFi and a year-round hot tub. The inn's nine guest rooms, including two family-style suites, allow the full property to be booked for weddings, corporate retreats, family reunions, and other private gatherings, accommodating up to 23 overnight guests, 30 people for an indoor event, and 75 for an outdoor event. The Great Room serves as the inn's central gathering space, hosting daily homemade breakfast and indoor events beneath its fieldstone fireplace, while the grounds offer a lawn, gardens, and a fire pit for outdoor use. A full inn rental includes access to Timberholm's network of local caterers, photographers, and other event vendors.

• Spaces for 16-50 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Barn
• 3 Total Spaces

West Hill House B&B is a historic 1850s farmhouse turned Vermont inn set on nine peaceful acres in Warren, in the state's Green Mountains. Nine guest rooms are joined by "The Commons" — three spacious shared rooms — along with gardens, meadows, ponds, and wooded grounds that create a quiet, secluded backdrop for gatherings. Owned and run by innkeepers Eric and Teresa Meadow, the inn is a member of Select Registry and the Association of Lodging Professionals, and has received TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice award each year from 2020 through 2025. For weddings and private events, the property's Handsome Red Barn and surrounding outdoor settings — a gazebo, gardens, meadows, and pond-side spots — host elopements, micro-weddings for up to 16 guests, and intimate weddings, receptions, and dinners for up to 50. In-house catering is available for smaller groups of 6 to 18, while the Handsome Red Barn accommodates larger stand-up receptions or seated dinners for up to 50 guests, with round or rectangular table setups and space for dancing. The same barn space converts to a retreat and meeting venue for groups of up to 24, complete with WiFi and projection equipment, while the B&B's boardroom, Sun Room, and covered Garden Terrace offer additional space for smaller meetings and gatherings.

• Spaces for 150-200 Guests
• 1 Ballroom
• 1 Resort

Salons at The Essex is an event space within The Essex Resort & Spa in Essex, Vermont, spanning 1,449 square feet across Salons I, II, and III and accommodating up to 150 seated guests, or as many as 200 for a cocktail reception. The space is part of a full-service resort set amid lush Vermont grounds, with rounds or long-table layouts available for plated or buffet meals. Weddings and events at the Salons are supported by The Essex Resort & Spa's on-site culinary team, which builds custom menus, from plated dinners to buffets, using fresh, locally sourced Vermont ingredients and accommodating dietary needs. Couples celebrating in the Salons can also draw on the resort's on-site spa for pre-event treatments and extend the celebration into a full weekend with rehearsal dinners, post-wedding brunches, and outdoor activities on property.

• Spaces for 165 Guests
• 1 Barn

Sleepy Hollow Inn Ski, Bike Center & Barn is an 880-acre property in Huntington, Vermont, about 30 minutes from Burlington in the Green Mountains, with views of Camel's Hump. At its center is a distinctive 17-sided round barn with hardwood floors, soaring beams, and 34 windows that fill the space with natural light, making it suited to both barn weddings and other private celebrations. The Round Barn hosts up to 165 guests, with its hardwood floor open for dancing throughout the space and a sound system that reaches the adjoining Pavilion. Couples can hold ceremonies inside the barn, under the covered 40'x40' Pavilion, or outdoors at a seven-sided gazebo beside the property's pond. The venue follows an open vendor policy, and 100% of the electricity used for weddings comes from solar power. Beyond the wedding spaces, the property includes an eight-bedroom Inn that sleeps up to 22 guests, a Butternut Cabin, and camping in Molly's Meadow with four lean-tos. Guests can also take advantage of the property's recreational trails, including groomed Nordic ski and snowshoe trails and mountain biking single track.

• 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 100-175 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Barn
• 2 Farms

Satoyama is a sustainable, organic farm wedding venue on 20 acres of hayfield and pasture in central Vermont, backed by another 140 acres of forest, a mountain stream, and large swimming ponds. The property sits five minutes from Route 100 and within three hours of Boston, with the ski towns of Warren, Sugarbush, and Killington all nearby. Ceremonies take place on an east-facing site overlooking mountain views and cascading ponds, seated on wide slab benches set among the meadows. Receptions move to the Barn, a post-and-beam structure about 100 yards from the farmhouse, where wedding bookings are capped at roughly 100 guests. An on-site farmhouse offers lodging, a country kitchen, and gathering rooms for the wedding party, and the grounds include two swimming ponds, an apiary, and roughly 50 cultivated fruit and nut species. Couples are free to pick flowers from the farm for their wedding, especially from July onward, and Satoyama does not require specific vendors — booked parties receive a vetted list of local recommendations instead.

• 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.