It's the road less traveled, winding 200 miles from the Massachusetts border to Canada. But if you skip the interstate and take Route 5 for a summer drive, as we did in this Chronicle Classic from 2005, you'll find strolling heifers, Christmas in July, and the grave of a controversial Green Mountain iconoclast, along with some of the prettiest views throughout Vermont.

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Fort Dummer State Park, Brattleboro, VT.

The Strolling of the Heifers, Brattleboro, VT.

Santa's Land, Putney, VT.

Indian Petroglyphs Bellows Falls, VT.

Williams River Route 5 Bridge, Rockingham, Vt.

Wilgus State Park, Ascutney, VT.

Ascutney State Park, Ascutney, VT.

American Precision Museum, Windsor, VT.

Old Constitution House, Windsor, VT.

Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, Windsor, VT.

White Mountain Flyer Train, White River Junction, VT.

Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, VT.

Saint Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury, VT.

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, St. Johnsbury, VT.

Gratis Potus Spencer Tombstone
Town Cemetery, Lyndon, VT.

Grandad’s Invitational Golf Course, Newark, VT.
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Crystal Lake State Park, Barton, VT.

Haskell Free Library and Opera House, Derby Line, VT.