White River Junction

White River Junction is a village on the Connecticut River in eastern Vermont. It is in the town of Hartford.

Understand

Visitor information

• White River Junction Welcome Center, 100 Railroad Row, ☎ [phone]. (updated Jan 2019)

Get in

By car

White River Junction is located at the junction of Interstate 89 and Interstate 91.

By bus

• Greyhound, Sykes Avenue. Phone: [phone]. Service from Boston Logan Airport and South Station to White River Junction. Several motels nearby, 15 minute walk to the center of White River Junction.
• Dartmouth Coach, Hanover/Lebanon: [phone]. Service from Boston Logan Airport, Boston South Station and New York City to Hanover (Dartmouth College) and Lebanon, both within ten miles of White River Junction.
• Advance Transit, [phone]. Serves the Upper Valley towns including Wilder, Norwich, Hanover, NH and West Lebanon, NH, Lebanon, Enfield and Canaan. All routes are free.

By plane

• Cape Air serves New Hampshire's Lebanon Municipal Airport, three miles from White River Junction. Flights to Boston Logan Airport and New York White Plains Airport.

By train

• Amtrak stops in downtown White River Junction, with intrastate service between Burlington and Brattleboro and interstate service to cities between Springfield, Mass. and Washington, DC.

Get around

• Advance Transit bus service

See

Get information about the area at the Tourist Information, located at the railway station.

• Main Street Museum, 58 Bridge St. Open Thursday through Sunday. All kinds of biological, mineralogical and historical artifacts. 
• Tupelo Music Hall, 188 S. Main St, ☎ [phone]. 
• Quechee Gorge. 

Do

• 🌍 Center for Cartoon Studies, 94 South Main St, ☎ [phone]. The CCS is a school that offers a two-year course of study that centers on the creation and dissemination of comics, graphic novels and other visual narratives. They have both a gallery and a library full of comics. To inform about the possibilities  
• Northern Stage Theatre, 74 Gates Street, ☎ [phone] (Box Office). A 245-seat theatre playing everything from one-person acoustic concerts to fully staged theatrical productions. 

Buy

Great antiques selection in Quechee (village of Hartford).

Eat

There's a well stocked supermarket just across the bridge in Hartford. They have a nice salad bar at $5 per pound, great for a picnic. There are a few diners on the other side of the river in West Lebanon, a 15-minute walk. Shyrl's Diner has an OK breakfast, but don't order more than two pancakes! They're huge.

• China Moon Buffet, 42 Sykes Ave, ☎ [phone]. 
• Tip Top Cafe, 85 N. Main St, ☎ [phone]. 
• AJ's Restaurant & Lounge, 40 Bowling Ln, ☎ [phone]. 1 Get an under $20 meal. 
• C&S Pizza, 104 S Main St. 
• Yama, 96 Main St. West Lebanon, ☎ [phone]. Nice Korean/Japanese cuisine. Average price $12.95 for a main course. Closed on Mondays. 
• Elixir Restaurant and Lounge, 188 South Main St, ☎ [phone]. 
• Tuckerbox, 1 South Main St, ☎ [phone]. 

Drink

• CJ's @ Than Wheeler's Tavern, 6 S Main St. A simple sports bar with both well known and local beers from tap and bottle. 
• Tuckerbox, 1 S Main St. Open during daytime from Monday through Saturday. Get your coffee fix here: free wifi. 

Sleep

• Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, 121 Ballardvale Rd, ☎ [phone]. 
• Hotel Coolidge, 39 S Main St, ☎ [phone]. Good place to stay in the old center of town, though a bit thin-walled. Shops nearby. Hostel beds $32+, standard rooms $89-$119. 

Go next

Routes through White River Junction

St. Albans ← Montpelier ←	N  S	→ Windsor → Springfield, MA
Burlington ← Montpelier ←	N  S	→ Lebanon → Concord
St. Johnsbury ← Norwich ←	N  S	→ Springfield, VT → Brattleboro
Rutland ← Quechee ←	W  E	→ Lebanon → Concord
St. Johnsbury ← Norwich ←	N  S	→ Windsor → Brattleboro