Waitsfield & the Mad River Valley — a stop on Vermont Route 100.
You're entering the Mad River Valley now, and Waitsfield is its main village — a genuinely lovely one, with a covered bridge right off the highway.
That's the Great Eddy Bridge, sometimes called the Village Bridge, and it dates to the eighteen thirties, which makes it one of the oldest covered bridges still carrying traffic in the entire country. Drive through it if the queue allows — and note the sign about the weight limit, which is not decorative.
Vermont has around a hundred surviving covered bridges, more per square mile than any other state, and the reason is partly poverty and partly stubbornness: Vermont didn't have the money to replace them with steel when everyone else did, and by the time it did, Vermonters had decided they liked them.
The roof, by the way, isn't for you — it's to keep rain off the timber trusses underneath. A bare wooden bridge rots in twenty years; a covered one lasts two centuries.
The valley around you is ski country, farm country, and increasingly a place people move to and work remotely from. It has managed to stay unusually intact — no strip development, no sprawl. That's not an accident, and it's largely down to Vermont's very tough land-use laws.