Shelburne Farms
Working Farm · Shelburne, Vermont
Fourteen hundred acres on Lake Champlain laid out in 1886 as a model agricultural estate by Dr William Seward Webb and Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb, on money inherited from the railroad fortune of William Henry Vanderbilt. Frederick Law Olmsted shaped the landscape and Robert Henderson Robertson designed the buildings, which is why a working dairy farm looks like a park with barns the size of cathedrals in it. It became a National Historic Landmark District in 2001, and since 1972 Webb descendants have run it as a non-profit education organisation with a hundred and twenty-five Brown Swiss cows and a farmhouse cheddar.
1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, Vermont, 05482, United States
⚠ SEASONAL - the property runs a defined visiting season concentrated in the warm months, and access, programming and facilities reduce considerably outside it. CHECK CURRENT DATES BEFORE TRAVELLING; they are published each year and they move. A PER-PERSON PROPERTY ADMISSION applies for the walking trails and the farmyard, with reduced rates for children and free entry for members. ⚠ THE FARM STORE AND THE CHEESE CAN GENERALLY BE VISITED WITHOUT PAYING THE PROPERTY ADMISSION. The Inn, its restaurant and the educational programmes are priced and booked separately. Parking is free. This is a working dairy and a non-profit education organisation rather than a visitor attraction, and the livestock and farm operations take precedence. ⚠ SHELBURNE MUSEUM IS A SEPARATE ORGANISATION ABOUT 3 KM AWAY WITH ITS OWN TICKET.