Stratton Mountain village clocktower
— — the meeting spot for everyone in ski boots.
Not only on a wall.
“The clocktower at the centre of the pedestrian village at Stratton Mountain, the place where everyone agrees to find each other when the lifts stop. Stratton opened in 1962 in the southern Green Mountains and built its base village in the alpine-Tyrolean shape skiers know from the Alps. The tower's face holds the time and the snow, and a generation of New England skiers has waited under it.
Stratton Mountain village clocktower, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Stratton Mountain Resort sits in the southern Green Mountains in Windham County, Vermont. The summit reaches 3,875 feet and the base village holds at about 1,872 feet, with the resort spreading across 670 skiable acres served by 11 lifts. The pedestrian village at the base — anchored by the clocktower — was built in an alpine-village template of dormered roofs, balconies, and stone-faced ground floors. Stratton opened in 1962 and grew into one of the larger destination resorts in southern Vermont, three and a half hours by car from Boston and four and a half from New York City.
The mountain operates two clear seasons. Ski and ride runs from late November to mid-April, with the U.S. Open of Snowboarding having been held at Stratton from 1985 to 2012 — the event that helped put modern halfpipe riding on the map. Summer brings golf on the 27-hole course, mountain biking, and the Stratton Mountain Music Festival. The clocktower marks both shoulders of the year: the meeting point under string lights in July as readily as the meeting point in ski boots in February.
Stratton is reached from the south by I-91 to exit 2 at Brattleboro, then Route 30 north and the Stratton Mountain Access Road. The drive runs through Manchester and the Green Mountain National Forest. The village is fully walkable once you arrive — the clocktower stands at the centre of the pedestrian plaza, with lodging, dining, and the base of the gondola within a few minutes. Closest commercial airport is Albany, about 90 miles west; many visitors fly into Boston or Hartford and drive up.