Public Tours of Vermont Village at Back River Road

“Vermont Village: A Conversation between Art, Water and the Land” is a singular artist-built environment that Ed Levine sited outdoors on Back River Road’s South Royalton property.

Deeply inspired by nineteenth-century author Henry David Thoreau, whose existential engagement with nature resulted in the book “Walden; or, Life in the Woods”, Levine spent three decades building a collection of eclectic wood structures throughout the steep and wooded property. The structures, which blur the boundaries between sculpture and architecture, explore different aspects of humanity’s relationship to nature and reflect the vernacular architecture of rural Vermont.

A limited number of tours of Vermont Village are FREE and open to the public by reservation on select weekends in June, August, and September.