Vermont has some little-traveled dirt roads that people like us who do not like to complete with the traffic can enjoy. One of them is River Road that runs out of Arlington. The home where Norman Rockwell once lived and worked is on this road. You may recognize the bridge below as the one pictured in Rockwell's famous "Swimming Hole." A Rockwell museum in the village of Arlington is well worth a visit.

Just west of Arlington are the Green Mountains, and there you will find miles of sparsely traveled mountain roads. These roads are open in summer only. If you are game for the hard peddling, you will enjoy the mountain streams and remote wooded views.