A Glazed & Amused drivable route
Eight orchards and farm stands, one state, a lot of cinnamon sugar.
Cider donuts belong to the orchard. The dough gets its tang from cider pressed a few feet away, and they're best warm, eaten standing up next to the fryer.
Vermont has more of these places than any other state in the directory. This route runs south to north, from Bennington to the Lake Champlain islands. It's too much for one day. Plan a weekend, and plan it for fall.
Cider donuts belong to the orchard.
Rolling out the map…
Positions are approximate, town-level.
Bennington, VT
It started in the 1970s as the roadside stand for Southern Vermont Orchards. New owners took over in 2023 and kept the daily cider doughnuts, minis included, on Route 7.
Manchester, VT
A garden center with a seasonal doughnut house that opens after Labor Day. Its fall cider doughnuts draw people from across the region.
Westminster, VT
Head east to Route 5 for this one. Tim and Stacey Allen's farm stand, bakery and deli presses its own cider and fries cider doughnuts nearly every day of the year. If you're here in July, this is your stop.
Waterbury Center, VT
Founded in 1974 and on Route 100 between Waterbury and Stowe since 1976. The mill still presses on an old rack-and-cloth press and fries donuts from that cider every day. Eat one warm, next to the fryer.
Cabot, VT
Greg and Stefanie Burtt grow more than 40 apple varieties up on Cabot Plains. The farm store fries cider doughnuts through the picking season. Get a cider slushie too.
Hinesburg, VT
Home of the Dreamee: a hot cider doughnut topped with maple creemee. Jessika Yates says it started one night when the family put the two together. They trademarked it.
Shelburne, VT
The Cowles family has run this Lake Champlain orchard since the 1950s. The sugar-coated cider doughnuts are made on site, and in season they go to Burlington's City Market every day.
South Hero, VT
Ron and Celia Hackett started it in 1967. Their grandson Devin runs it now with his wife Amanda. Hot doughnuts, fresh cider, cider slush and apple crisp, out on the islands.
Chichester, NH
Across the river in New Hampshire. A country store in a 1784 building, where Ron Panneton's cider donut recipe turned a general store into a destination.
Albany, NY
Siblings Andy and Jennifer Novak's cider-doughnut shop, now on Fuller Road. Cinnamon-and-sugar is the flagship, with rotating glazed flavors every week.
Leaf season ends, the cider mills close, and you're back to needing a year-round shop. Here's what's near you.
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