HIGHLIGHTS
Cycling the Island Line Trail
An undoubted highlight of the trip was cycling the 21.6km-long (one way) Island Line Trail from Burlington, which begins near the marina. It's easy enough to rent bicycles for the day, and we hired a mix of manual and electric bikes from friendly company Local Motion (localmotion.org).
From there, we traced the eastern shoreline of Lake Champlain, pausing periodically for breaks not because of heavy legs (the going is really flat), but because the route is laden with lakeside panoramas that are just too irresistible not to soak up for a little longer. The trail is easy for most of the way, allowing you to concentrate fully on the surrounding woodland as well as the marshy wetlands of Delta Park, a sub-tropical wilderness best viewed as you cross over the Winooski River on its
