Haunted Stays in Vermont: Three Inns, and the One With Real Revolutionary History
Vermont's haunted inns checked at source — including a hotel that has been operating since 1769 and says nothing about ghosts, and a tap-dancing ghost with no record behind him.
Updated August 3, 2026
Vermont's haunted lodging has a ranking problem: the property with the best ghost story has almost no history behind it, and the property with extraordinary history makes no ghost claims at all.
Both are worth staying in. It's just worth knowing which is which.
The three
| Property | Where | The room | October rate | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green Mountain Inn | Stowe, Vermont | Room 302, by repute | Not published | Check dates |
| The Equinox Resort | Manchester Village, Vermont | Not designated by the resort | Not published | Check dates |
| Golden Stage Inn | Proctorsville, Vermont | Not designated by the inn | Not published | Check dates |
Green Mountain Inn, Stowe — the famous one
18 Main Street, Stowe. 800-253-7302.
The story is Boots Berry: born in room 302, worked at the inn, and died in 1902 falling from the roof while pulling someone off it. Guests report tap dancing overhead on snowy nights.
It is the best-told ghost story in Vermont and one of the least supported. It circulates almost entirely through ghost-tourism writing, and the inn itself doesn't mention him anywhere. We could find no primary record — the same problem as the Wood Devils in northern New Hampshire, where a vivid and specific story turns out to rest on later retellings citing each other.
Ask for room 302 by number. Don't expect the front desk to play along.
The Equinox, Manchester Village — the real thing
3567 Main St, Manchester Village. 855-501-0029.
This is where the ranking flips. The Equinox states its own origin plainly on its site: established in 1769 as Marsh Tavern, Vermont's oldest hotel, and a gathering place for Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys.
Read that again. This building predates Vermont's statehood and predates the United States. The men who seized Fort Ticonderoga drank here. Mary Todd Lincoln summered in Manchester and the Lincoln family's connection to the town is well documented.
The ghost reports attach to the older tavern rooms and to Mrs Lincoln. The resort claims none of it.
If your interest is atmosphere with genuine depth underneath it, this is the Vermont stay — not because it's haunted, but because it's old, in a way almost nothing in America is, and it's still taking bookings.
Golden Stage Inn, Proctorsville
802-226-7744. A former stagecoach stop near Ludlow, now a small country B&B. The accounts describe two presences, one male and one female, the woman usually seen brushing her hair.
The inn presents itself as a country B&B and nothing else. No ghost content on its site.
The pattern, again
Three Vermont properties. None of them mentions a ghost on its own website.
That now holds across fourteen properties we've checked in six states. The count of properties advertising their own haunting remains stuck at one — Captain Grant's, 1754 in Preston, Connecticut.
It's worth sitting with what that means. An entire category of travel content is built on claims that the businesses at the centre of it decline to make.
Practical notes
Vermont's expensive season is foliage, not Halloween. The first three weeks of October are peak leaf-peeping, and Stowe and Manchester are two of the most sought-after towns in the state during it. That's a different pressure from Salem's, and it means late October can be both cheaper and quieter.
None of the three publishes rates. All dynamic.
These are small properties. There is one room 302.
If you're building a Vermont trip, our Vermont attraction roundup covers the state's two haunted attractions — though as of our last check neither had confirmed 2026 dates, and one was publishing a schedule that can only describe last year. And Lake Champlain's Champ is an hour and a half north of Manchester, where the most-repeated fact about the monster turns out to be a fabrication.