Factory Tours Member Login Return to home page Celebrating American Imagination and Industry! Map these results                   Print This Page   Sort by Location   Latitude/Longitude Location List   Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Waterbury, VT Last year 275,000 ice cream fans toured this facility. Not bad for a company launched in 1978 in a renovated gas station. As visitors soon learn, it's not just about ice cream--there's a social mission behind Ben & Jerry's. Thirty-minute tours are offered daily, beginning with a seven-minute video, continuing on to the tour mezzanine, where you watch ice cream production. If production is down, a narrated video will fill in the details. The tour ends at the Scoop Shop, where guests try old favorites like Cherry Garcia, and perhaps, test-drive a new flavor. Nestled in the heart of the Green Mountains our ice cream factory sits on a rolling pasture overlooking the Worcester Range, just north of the small town of Waterbury. Our guided facto...Click here for more details... Cabot Creamery Cabot, VT "There's efficiency and strength when we work together." That's the principle on which the Cabot Creamery Cooperative was founded by the farmers of Cabot, Vermont in 1919. It's the same principle on which the Cabot brand and its parent cooperative, Agri-Mark, continue to thrive today. As it was early last century, Cabot is still a sleepy little farm town tucked into the rocky soil of Vermont's rolling hills. The company is still working hard to bring pleasure to the people who buy our products and value to the farmer-owners who supply our milk. And that's just what we plan to keep on doing for many years to come....Click here for more details... Cold Hollow Cider Mill Waterbury Center, VT The Cold Hollow Cider Mill is one of the top producers of Fresh Apple Cider in all of New England. We are also one of the very few that press year-round. The Mill has become one of the top tourist attractions in Vermont because our operation is open to public viewing. Come and see cider that's still made the old fashioned way, with a rack and cloth press built in the 1920's. After you have seen cider made, its time to wander through the large Retail store and check out many of the specialty foods we have to offer. Bring your appetite, since you can sample plenty of jellies, mustards, applesauce, fudge, and other goodies. In the Summer, watch real bees make honey in our honey corner (don't worry, they're behind glass). Honeybees play...Click here for more details... Crowley Cheese Healdville, VT Come watch Crowley Cheese being made by hand just as it was over 100 years ago by Winfield Crowley. Our landmark factory was built next to a small mountain brook in 1882 in the then traditional post & beam fashion. Little has changed in over 110 years. You will see a modern cheese factory of the 19th Century - not the 20th. The entire production is completely “human” powered. Only a few hundred pounds of cheese are made each day, and the process remains exactly as it was when the factory was established. There is no automatic stirring equipment or any other such devices. The factory is easily accessible and we make cheese most Mondays through Thursdays. You should call ahead to be sure, if you are making a special trip to see cheese b...Click here for more details... Dakin Farms South Burlington, VT Come see how time-honored skills and century-old tradition combine with the most modern smokehouse facilities to produce ham, cheddar cheese, Pure Vermont Maple Syrup, and other specialty foods known the world over for their unique flavor and wholesome goodness. See how it's done… Things to do and see at Dakin Farm: View our educational Vermont maple syrup movie Tour our maple syrup cannery Tour our state-of-the-art smokehouse See how our foods are made FREE samples - try our special foods FREE exhibits - for children and adults too! We'll roll out the red carpet, show you around and give you FREE samples so you can taste for yourself the best Vermont has to offer....Click here for more details... Granville Manufacturing Granville, VT Granville Manufacturing has been in continuous operation, owned and run by family businesses since 1857. We feature spruce and pine quartersawn clapboards as well as other vertical grain building materials. The old New England houses that dot the countryside are the best examples that wood siding can withstand the test of time. We invite you to tour our facility. We are located in the heart of Vermont on scenic Route 100. Come and see for yourself why we are proud to carry on a true Vermont tradition....Click here for more details... Harpoon Brewery (Windsor) Windsor, VT We offer free in-depth brewery tours of the Windsor Brewery at 3:00 pm on Friday and Saturday. Reservations are not necessary, but the tour size is limited to first 30 people on a first come first serve basis. We request that children do not participate in the tour to allow room for those 21 years and older. The tour includes a walk through the brewery (depending on Brewery Production at the time of the tour) and complimentary samples of Harpoon beer. It lasts about 45 minutes. You must be 21 years or older with proper ID to sample. If you are visiting during non-tour times we offer a Production Viewing Area where you can check out the Brew-house "up close" and learn all about Harpoon. Feel free to request a free sample from our sampling...Click here for more details... Johnson Woolen Mills, LLC Johnson, VT Johnson Woolen Mills is a 161 year old manufacturer of fine woolen outerwear and accessories for men, women, children and big & tall. All clothing is 100% designed and handmade at our factory in Johnson, VT. In addition, we have a factory store next door which is an extremely popular Vermont attraction. The JOHNSON tradition reaches back more than 160 years to a time when local farmers brought their wool here to have it woven into cloth. In the late 19th century, we began making heavy woolen trousers, well suited to the climate of Vermont and the rest of New England. In the early 20th century, we added shirts, jackets and vests to our line of ready-made clothing. Today our factory is still at the same location on the banks of the Gihon R...Click here for more details... Lake Champlain Chocolates Burlington, VT Lake Champlain Chocolates started on a dare. In 1983, Jim Lampman, owner of Burlington, Vermont's acclaimed Ice House Restaurant on the Lake Champlain waterfront, was buying expensive boxes of chocolates as gifts for his staff. One day, his pastry chef, a man of high epicurean standards, took Jim aside after receiving one too many boxes. "These chocolates are terrible," he confessed. "All right then, you do better!" Jim challenged him. Shortly thereafter, Jim was presented with hand rolled, distinctively flavored truffles - the finest chocolates Jim had ever tasted. Jim began serving them Sundays to select restaurant patrons. The response was so favorable, Jim founded an upscale chocolate company to keep up with the demand. Althoug...Click here for more details... Long Trail Brewing Company Bridgewater Corners, VT As the brewer of Vermont's #1 selling craft brew we are dedicated to providing you with an outstanding experience. Whether your interest is to enjoy some of Long Trail's award winning brews or to take our self-guided brewery tour, guests to our facility will find extraordinary insight into the wonderful world of beer....Click here for more details... Magic Hat Brewing Company South Burlington, VT The Ancient Ritual of brewing a distinctly rich and flavorful beer is nothing short of magic. Our mysterious mix of time-honored ingredients, chaotic chemistry, humble patience, and blind faith age into the secret brew we share in the rousing company of good spirits....Click here for more details... Maple Grove Farms of Vermont St. Johnsbury, VT Enter under the Welcoming Green Awning and view our award winning video, 'Vermont's First Industry - Maple Syrup', while sampling our yummy maple candies. A friendly, knowledgeable Tour Guide will take you through two floors of our factory. You'll see 100% pure, natural Maple Syrup packed on the filling line or watch our Gourmet Dressings go by. Follow your Tour guide down to the kitchen and see Maple Candy being made in our vintage equipment. View the room where a whole lot of shaking goes on! Walk through the crystal room where the candy is set in tanks overnight to form its protective shell ... then look right into our packing area and watch the candy being inspected and carefully hand packed. Next, stroll into the Sugar House Muse...Click here for more details... Maple Landmark Middlebury, VT Maple Landmark was founded in the 1970's by Michael Rainville in his parents' basement, in Lincoln, Vermont. What began as an after-school and summertime hobby soon turned into a business making spool holders, cribbage boards, and wooden vehicles. He began by selling at local fairs and consignment shops with the first wholesale sales coming in 1979. After graduating Clarkson University in 1984, Mike went to work constructing a new woodshop of ample size for his now full-time business, now known as Maple Landmark Woodcraft. The choice "Maple Landmark" as the name for the business was a natural extension of the name Mike's family used for their maple sugaring business and farm, Maple Landmark Homestead. His grandfather has been making mapl...Click here for more details... Otter Creek Brewing Middlebury, VT Located in beautiful Middlebury, Vermont, we shipped our first keg of Copper Ale in March of 1991. Four years later, after quickly outgrowing our original site, we moved into a new state-of-the-art brewery just down the street. In 1998, we began producing Wolaver's Certified Organic Ales in partnership with Panorama Brewing Company. Both brands have flourished as beer drinkers throughout the northeast have enjoyed craft ales, and as the focus on sustainable farming and living has blossomed. In May of 2002, the Wolaver family purchased Otter Creek Brewing. Otter Creek remains a family owned Vermont company and produces all Otter Creek and Wolaver's brands for distribution throughout the country. We brew and bottle all of our beers...Click here for more details... Rock of Ages Quarry Graniteville (Barre Town), VT Central Vermont was built upon the granite industry, the offspring of pure Yankee tenacity and immigrant fortitude. Rock of Ages, founded by two native Vermonters and one Scotsman, epitomizes the rich cultural heritage of Barre, Vermont. Rock of Ages represents a living industry, not a museum or showcase, but a working, breathing entity that gives rise to some of the finest artistry in stone that our guests have ever seen. We invite you and your family to experience Rock of Ages. Our narrated shuttle tours take you to the world's largest deep-hole, dimension granite quarry-a quarry nearly 600 feet deep! Peer into its depths; observe our quarriers as they cut blocks from the sheer face and see the mighty steel derrick...Click here for more details... Simon Pearce Windsor, VT Visitors are welcome to observe the Simon Pearce glassblowers at work in one of our four workshops. In Windsor and Oakland, a catwalk viewing gallery above the factory floor provides an ideal vantage point. The Quechee site provide close encounters with the glassblowers. Visitors may stand on the same level, separated from the craftspeople by a safety railing. Glass has been made over four thousand years, beginning in Western Asia. The first items made of glass were small objects such as beads. These early glass objects were made by using molds. Glass vessels began to appear in the late 15th and 16th centuries B.C. Glassblowing evolved much later, during the 1st century B.C. in the Roman Empire. By blowing glass, craftsmen could prod...Click here for more details... Sugarbush Farm Woodstock, VT Maple Syrup Farm. While you can't quite call a maple sugar house a factory, its the work place where maple sap as its collected out of a maple tree in the spring is boiled down into maple syrup. The actual production takes place in the spring but visitors can visit this farm factory to see how its done year round. Walk in the woods to see the sugar maples, see how the spouts are drilled, and see the huge evaporator where the sap is boiled. Stop in the farm house sampling room for samples of the different grades,and also taste 14 varieties of cheese that are aged, smoked, and hand packaged in the farm house "factory."...Click here for more details... The Grafton Village Cheese Company Grafton, VT In the first decades of the 1800s, Grafton was a thriving settlement on the post road from Boston to Albany. The town had many farms, over 10,000 sheep, sawmills, gristmills, tanneries, woolen mills, a soapstone quarry, a carriage and sleigh factory, an inn and several stores. By the mid 1800s many of New England's farmers had moved westward and the region's once strong wool industry had collapsed under the pressures of Australian competition. Like many towns around it, Grafton was no longer on the main thoroughfare. The Grafton Village Cheese Company was founded in 1890 as the Grafton Cooperative Cheese Company, and converted surplus milk from local dairy farmers into cheese. Some years later, a fire destroyed the original factory. W...Click here for more details... Vermont Teddy Bear Shelburne, VT Our Bear Ambassadors will take you on a half-hour tour through our colorful factory. They'll share with you the history of the Teddy Bear, the beginnings of our company, and the handmade process by which we lovingly create every one of our Vermont Teddy Bears. See a Bear come to life before your eyes and then find out how we specially package and ship our BearGram® gifts....Click here for more details... 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