Map of Stowe, Vermont in 2026

If you know Stowe, you know the corner in the village where Main Street meets Maple Street and Mountain Road heads off toward Mount Mansfield. This map prints Mountain Road, Maple Street, South Main Street, Waterbury Road, Pucker Street and Stowe Hollow Road, Moscow, Lower Village and West Branch, and Lake Mansfield and Sterling Pond.

Stowe is a town in Lamoille County, Vermont.

KNOWOL made this map in 2026 from public survey data and gave it the look of an old county atlas, shading the hills from United States Geological Survey elevation data and drawing the roads and town line from the Census Bureau. At 72.8 square miles, Stowe is the second-largest town in Vermont by area after Chittenden, and 5,223 people lived here at the 2020 census. Click here to purchase a print of this map for your wall.

A valley under Mount Mansfield

Benning Wentworth, royal governor of New Hampshire, chartered Stowe on June 8, 1763. More settlers arrived in 1793, two years after Vermont became a state. The town organized on March 13, 1797, and Nathan Robinson is the first representative the Legislature lists for it, from 1801. It belonged to Chittenden County until 1811 and to Washington County until Lamoille County was formed in 1836. The town lies in a broad valley between Mount Mansfield and the Green Mountains on the west and the Worcester Range on the east. The village grew up on the Little River where its West Branch joins it, and the river runs south past Moscow toward Waterbury Reservoir. Farming and lumber dominated its early years. Up to 8,000 sheep once grazed these hills, and later more than 100 dairy farms worked the town.

Mount Mansfield, at 4,393 feet, is the highest mountain in Vermont. The mountain once stood in the town of Mansfield, which was later split up, with its eastern part joining Stowe in 1848. The dividing line didn’t follow the ridge exactly, and it left the Chin, the summit, in Underhill and the Nose in Stowe. The mountain scenery made Stowe a well-known summer resort by the middle of the 1800s. W. H. H. Bingham, a Stowe lawyer, promoted the trade, built the large Mount Mansfield Hotel in 1864, which burned in 1889, and built the Summit Hotel on the mountain and roads to Mount Mansfield and Smugglers Notch. A 4.5-mile toll road still climbs from the Stowe base lodge to the Nose.

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From summer resort to ski town

Stowe held its first Winter Carnival in 1921. During the Great Depression the Civilian Conservation Corps built camps and cleared ski trails on Mount Mansfield, and Stowe became an early center of downhill skiing in the United States. The Bruce Trail came first, in 1933, then the Nose Dive in 1934, and in 1940 Stowe became the first ski area in Vermont with a single chairlift. One of the CCC buildings still stands on the north side of Mountain Road, across the West Branch about half a mile below the resort entrance. Built in 1935 to house 50 men working on the ski area’s roads and trails, it’s one of the largest surviving CCC-built housing units in Vermont, and the state ran it as a ski lodge after the war. In 1942 Maria and Georg von Trapp, whose story was loosely told in The Sound of Music, settled in Vermont, and in 1950 the family opened their enlarged home in Stowe as a 27-room ski lodge.

The village center at the junction of Main Street, Maple Street and Mountain Road is a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Its first building was a tavern of 1811, and the brick Green Mountain Inn dates to 1833. The district takes in both the town hall of 1818 and the town hall of 1902, which is still in use, and the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, founded in 1988, moved to Stowe in 2000 and stands at 1 South Main Street. In Stowe Hollow, in the southeast part of town, the Gold Brook Covered Bridge, also called Emily’s Bridge, crosses Gold Brook near Stowe Hollow Road. John W. Smith built it around 1844, and it’s the only covered bridge left in Stowe and the state’s only surviving example of a wooden Howe truss on a public road. In 1969 town voters told the selectmen to maintain it forever.

Moscow, in the far south of town on the Little River, began as Smith’s Falls, named for a dam William Smith built in 1822. It took its second name from “the bell of Moscow,” a used circular saw blade hung in the old schoolhouse and struck to call meetings, and the name became official when the post office opened in 1886. The village prospered as a woodworking center into the early 1900s. Joseph Dutton, born in Stowe in 1843, served in the Union Army and later worked as a missionary with Saint Damien of Molokai, and Billy Kidd, who grew up in Stowe racing with the Mount Mansfield Ski Team, won a silver medal in slalom at the 1964 Winter Olympics, making him and teammate Jimmie Heuga the first American men to win Olympic medals in alpine skiing.

On the map, start with Moscow and Stowe Fork, then follow Waterbury Road, South Main Street, Maple Street, Pucker Street, Mountain Road and Stowe Hollow Road across town. Then look outward toward Lower Village and West Branch. Lake Mansfield and Sterling Pond are printed too. Stowe dates to 1763.

This map of Stowe is made for everyone who calls Stowe home, and it shows the town as it looks today, from Moscow and South Main Street to Mountain Road and Sterling Pond. Hang it in an office, library or den, or use it to teach children the geography and history of their town. It’s printed on museum quality archival paper. Zoom in on the preview above to explore the details, then click here to get your copy of the Stowe, Vermont map.

Sources

• Stowe, Vermont, Wikipedia
• Town histories and representatives, S towns, Vermont Legislature
• Mount Mansfield, Wikipedia
• Stowe Village Historic District, Wikipedia
• W. H. H. Bingham, Wikipedia
• Stowe Mountain Resort, Wikipedia
• Stowe CCC Side Camp, Wikipedia
• Trapp Family Lodge, Wikipedia
• Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum, Wikipedia
• Gold Brook Covered Bridge, Wikipedia
• Moscow Village Historic District, Wikipedia
• Joseph Dutton, Wikipedia
• Billy Kidd, Wikipedia