Historic Downtown Poultney
Welcoming, Beautiful, Charming
Poultney is a welcoming community set in a gorgeous slate valley landscape with a quintessential Vermont vibe and offers many unique ways to experience the area.
It is an up-and-coming community with a wonderful diversity of recreational, cultural, historic, arts and natural tourism opportunities in a beautiful rural Vermont landscape. Outdoor enthusiasts, heritage tourists, and those seeking quiet getaways will find lots to love here. Poultney's Main Street scene is on the rise, with a number of new business owners and an engaged and creative citizenry purposefully building new opportunity for the community. The Slate Quarry Park downtown features slate walls and floors and an amphitheatre with a slate nautilus, honoring the area’s history as a slate quarrying town and providing a public venue for live music, plays, poetry readings, and other events.
Poultney is home to a thriving community. Explore the area’s top spots: