Warren Village — a stop on Vermont Route 100.
Just off the highway on your right is Warren village, and it is about as picture-perfect as Vermont gets: a covered bridge over the Mad River, a white church, and the Warren Store.
The store is worth the detour. It's an old-fashioned general store with a deli counter that makes genuinely excellent sandwiches, creaky wooden floors, and a porch over the river to eat them on. It's the kind of place that anchors a village, and it has been doing it since the eighteen thirties.
Warren also throws what is, without exaggeration, the most beloved Fourth of July parade in Vermont — a gloriously ramshackle, satirical, homemade affair that draws thousands of people to a village of about seventeen hundred. If you're here on the fourth, go, but park a long way out and walk.
Above the village is Sugarbush, one of the big Vermont ski resorts, and on the other side of the valley is Mad River Glen — and those two mountains, five miles apart, represent two completely opposite ideas about what skiing should be. Boone has that story.
Watch for the Warren covered bridge sign if you want to see it — it's a short, well-signed detour.