Is there anything more dreamy than Vermont in autumn? We partnered with Vermont Tourism to share some itineraries to help you plan your trip to these two standout regions.

The Capital Region puts Montpelier and Barre mere miles apart, one the state capital and the other the granite capital of the world. Two towns stitched together by maple sugarhouses and covered bridges.

To the west, the Champlain Valley traces the Lake Champlain shoreline before rising into the Green Mountains. Detour inland to Middlebury for its bookshops and buzzy downtown, plus the nearby Robert Frost haunts around Ripton, or point the car toward Lincoln Gap and the country's steepest paved mile.

Here's where to go in each.

Montpelier and Barre sit just miles apart, one of the nation's smallest state capitals, the other the granite capital of the world. But the Capital Region rewards wandering beyond these two cities. In three days, you can pass through a string of postcard villages, from Cabot, whose name is on cheese across the country, to the mill-town charm of Plainfield.

Rolling farmland, a storied college town, and the shoreline of Lake Champlain: this is the corner of Vermont whose landscapes shaped some of Robert Frost's most enduring poetry.

Trace the route from Vergennes to Middlebury's college-town buzz, hike the boardwalk that lines his verse with the woods that inspired it, and drive the steepest paved mile in the country over Lincoln Gap.