Vermont, United States

Awol Stowe

Price per night from$197.68

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD197.68), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Peaks, porches & pancakes

Setting

Flanking Cady Hill Forest

The name Awol Stowe may conjure thoughts of a tucked-away bolthole, but this Vermont mountain stay’s outdoorsy charm shines in plain sight. You can tap into its adventure-ready spirit on the forest-fringed deck, where there’s a cedar hot tub and sauna; at gatherings around the fire pit on moonlit nights, or find it reflected in the rose-cheeked faces of revellers at the hotel’s lounge and bar. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

35, including six standalone cabins.

Check–Out

11am; earliest check-in, 4pm.

More details

Rates include breakfast, served daily at the main lodge.

Also

The hotel is suitable for wheelchair-users, and there’s an adapted King Junior Suite opposite the spa deck, as well as an ADA-compliant Queen Cabin by the pond.

Please note

If you’re travelling with your dog(s), you’ll be charged a security deposit of $250 (per pet) for each night of your stay at the time of booking. As long as Fido doesn’t cause any damage or stains to your room, and he isn’t found outside of pet-friendly areas, your deposit will be refunded. 

At the hotel

Ski storage, library and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: climate control, smart TV, mini fridge, wine glasses and a corkscrew, hairdryer, bathrobes and DS & Durga bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Pondside Junior Suites have a scenic aspect and sizable living space. Top of house is the Awol Suite for two, which has a showstopper living room to rival the main lounge. For families, the two-bedroom Lark Suite elevates practicality by styling a full kitchen and living room with cozy alpine touches and original features.

Poolside

There’s no pool, but the hotel’s cedar-clad hot tub is a balmy place to dip, year-round.

Spa

On a broad outdoor deck, at the heart of the hotel, is Awol Stowe’s Nordic spa area. Either side of its Adirondack-chair-lined gas fire pit, you’ll find a Finnish-style sauna, cedar hot tub and cold plunge pool; wraparound mountain scenery makes it a tonic for your soul as well as your muscles.

Packing tips

Cards or travel board games for lo-fi evenings on the porch; swimwear for the hot tub, and a rotation of beanies and plaid for late-afternoon après.

Also

At Awol Stowe you’re within walking distance of two of its sister stays, Smith-approved Field Guide Lodge and Bluebird Cady Hill Lodge.

Pet‐friendly

Some rooms are pet-friendly and up to two pups (weighing no more than 70 pounds each) can stay for a nightly fee of $50 a dog: four-legged friends are allowed in outdoor communal areas only and can’t be left unattended in your room. See more pet-friendly hotels in Vermont.

Children

Welcome, though this one is better suited for adult Smiths as children are not particularly catered for. The two-bedroom Lark Suite is fit for families.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

In winter make a beeline for seats by the fire in the lower lounge; after the snow, sunlit tables overlooking the deck will whet your appetite for a day outdoors.

Dress Code

Mountain-ready threads fly here just fine.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no restaurant at Awol Stowe, but breakfast is served each morning at the lodge, featuring a toast bar of savory and sweet breads and pastries, and a deli’s worth of toppings. There’s also yogurt, fresh fruit, juices, coffee and tea. For the rest of the day, expect a curation of light bites, such as alpine boards of cheese and charcuterie, mushrooms on toast, and seasonally topped focaccia flatbreads. Tabletop s’mores are as much a social event as they are a sugary pitstop. 

Hotel bar

Timbered alpine charm laces every cocktail, mocktail, beer and glass of wine served in the hotel’s all-day bar. Pick to sip at the counter, on one of the high stools, just off the lobby; or recline in the lounge, filled with retro-style, low-slung chairs and a fireplace at its heart.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 7.30am until 10am. Last orders for food is at 10.30pm and the bar is open until 11pm.

Room service

There’s no room service, but snacks are available at the lodge all day.

Location

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Address
Awol Stowe
691 Mountain Road
Stowe
05672
United States

At the edge of Cady Hill Forest, Awol Stowe is set back from Mountain Road, between town and Stowe Mountain in northern Vermont.

Planes

Burlington is the nearest airport, a 50-minute drive from Awol Stowe; ask the hotel staff to arrange private transfers (price on application). For international arrivals, you’ll need to connect at Boston Logan International Airport.

Trains

Waterbury-Stowe is the nearest station, 20 minutes from the hotel by road. The Amtrak train route serves this stop, with direct links to Montpelier, NYC, Hartford and New Haven.

Automobiles

There’s a private carpark at the hotel and interstate highways will take you most of the way to Stowe.

Other

From December to April, a free shuttle bus runs between town and the mountain, with a stop on Awol Stowe’s Mountain Road.

Worth getting out of bed for

Winter is Stowe’s strongest suit — a time when the ski area at Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak delivers bluebird powder days to the lucky, and alpine après to all. In summer, the resort’s two-wheel appeal extends to mountain biking trails or flatter routes along Stowe Bike Path. Walking paths through Cady Hill Forest, which edges Awol Stowe, bring welcome shade from the pine-scented canopy. 

Less energetic pursuits include a foray to the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, housed in a church on South Main Street, and exploring Stowe’s clapboard-cute center of b, plus clothing, antique and gift stores. 

You’ll need to book two weeks ahead, but a tour of the original Ben & Jerry’s factory in Waterbury is too close to miss, and comes with the novelty addition of its ‘flavor graveyard’ as well as the promise of ice-cream afterwards.

Local restaurants

Across the road from Awol Stowe, the Bench is likely to become your adopted local — it comes with heaped plates of comfort food, classic pub drinks and a lively ambience. Heading towards the ski hill, Matterhorn is a low-lit, high-tabled riverside pizzeria and sushi spot that’s loved by locals as well as out-of-towners. It could be the seasonal dishes, the chatter-filled atmosphere or broad choice of beers and ciders, but whatever Doc Pond’s is prescribing, we’d like it on repeat.

Local cafés

In town, Butler’s Pantry on Main Street is a New England classic, where it’s near obligatory to try the blueberry-studded buttermilk pancakes. Back on Mountain Road, the Bagel has the kind of hot- and cold-stuffed baked breakfasts we can all get behind.

Local bars

At Field Guide Lodge, Après Only has the same small plates and drinks first philosophy as your basecamp, but serves theirs with a calendar’s worth of live music — sometimes a band, sometimes a solo songstress. Shakedown Street is ostensibly a barbecue and grill joint, but its Stowe Cider setting confirms that it’s the choice of appley tipples that’s at its core. 

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this Green Mountains escape and unpacked their maple fudge and flannel shirts, a full account of their outdoorsy break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Awol Stowe in Vermont…

Wrapped in alpine scenery and hugged by forested foothills that descend to riverine valleys, Vermont is a great place to run away to. And within one of its sweet mountain towns, you’ll find an equally carefree ethos distilled into the contemporary cabin coziness at Awol Stowe

Timbered interiors with tactile furnishings and alpine motifs are warm and welcoming. The hotel edges Cady Hill Forest, set back from Mountain Road, creating a sense of being squirrelled away, too. And an all-day bar and dining spot means that your indoor downtime is just as unhurried. 

But far from being a place to hole up, this modern lodge celebrates the great outdoors. All rooms come with private alfresco space. Communally, a heart-of-the-hotel wooden deck has a cedar hot tub, cold plunge pool and sauna for spa time overlooking the forest. And a choice of fire pits, each edged by Adirondack chairs, extends time spent in the fresh mountain air well into starlit evenings.

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