The nation's smallest big city

Burlington is one of America's liveliest small cities (population: 40,000), and it charms with its proximity to Vermont's idyllic countryside. As the state's educational, medical, financial and cultural epicenter, Burlington is Vermont's prized city.

What's within walking distance or a short bike ride of UVM's campus?

• 1 of the most beautiful lakes in the world — the sixth largest freshwater lake in the U.S.
• 1 house museum belonging to a Revolutionary War hero (Ethan Allen)
• 1 house in which a U.S. president was married (Calvin Coolidge, 312 Maple St.)
• 9 theatre and concert venues attracting national acts like Ani DiFranco, Feist and Guster
• 40 art galleries and venues
• 13 coffee shops
• 8 night clubs
• 100+ restaurants and bistros (not including all of the fine ones on campus)
• 11 different types of international cuisine
• 2 shopping malls
• 1 of the oldest minor league baseball parks still in use in the country (Centennial Field, home of the Vermont Lake Monsters)

• 1 of America's finest downtown marketplaces
• 14 parks
• 1 lakeside skate park
• 3 sand beaches
• 1 community sailing center offering sailboat rentals
• 100 national retail stores (Macy's, Urban Outfitters, Borders, Abercrombie & Fitch, J.Crew, etc.)
• 17 religions represented by their houses of worship (including a mosque, several synagogues, Friends (Quaker) meeting house, church of Christ Scientist, Buddhist center, Catholic church, and others)
• 354 acres of agricultural and wild land located in Burlington's Intervale along the banks of the Winooski River
• 13 mile-long lakeside bikepath

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