Stowe Trapp Family Lodge meadow
— — the hill the von Trapps chose because it looked like Salzburg.
Not only on a wall.
“The Austrian-style lodge the von Trapp family built on the hill above Stowe after settling here in 1942. The long meadow falls east toward the Worcester Range; Maria chose the site because it reminded her of the country above Salzburg. The original 1950 lodge burned in 1980 and was rebuilt three years later. The cross-country trails still leave from the door.
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The Trapp Family Lodge sits on 2,500 acres above the village of Stowe, Vermont, on a south-facing meadow that drops toward the Worcester Range. The von Trapp family, whose story was retold in The Sound of Music, settled in Stowe in 1942 after leaving Austria, choosing the site because Maria said the hills reminded her of the country above Salzburg. The lodge opened to guests in 1950 in an Austrian Tyrolean style. The original building burned in December 1980 and was rebuilt on the same site in 1983. The property is still owned and operated by the von Trapp family.
The meadow reads in every season. In late September and early October the maples along the lower fields turn first, then the long view east across to the Worcester Range goes through orange and copper. In winter the property hosts one of the oldest commercial cross-country ski centers in the United States, opened in 1968, with more than 60 kilometres of groomed trails leaving directly from the lodge. Lupins bloom across the meadow in mid-June, and the Trapp brewery on the lower property serves Austrian-style lagers brewed on site.
The lodge operates as a working hotel and is open to non-guests for the dining rooms, the bakery, the brewery, and the trail system. Day passes cover cross-country skiing in winter and meadow walking in the warmer months. The drive from Stowe village is about two miles up Trapp Hill Road. The von Trapp Concert Meadow hosts summer evening performances, including visits by the current generation of von Trapp singers. The property remains in family hands four generations on from Maria and Georg.