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, ☏ +1 802 281-5050. (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: +1 802 295-3011. 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: +1 603 448-2800. 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, +1 802 295-1824. 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

See also: Rail travel in the United States

43.647827-72.3174711 White River Junction railway station, 102 Railroad Row. Located in downtown White River Junction. (updated Sep 2019)
- Amtrak, ☏ +1 215-856-7924, toll-free: +1-800-872-7245. Operates train service around the United States of America. (updated Mar 2022) Route stopping at White River Junction:
  - Vermonter operates daily between St. Albans and Washington, D.C. including stops in Essex Junction, Waterbury, Montpelier, White River Junction, Claremont, Bellows Falls, Brattleboro, Greenfield, Northampton, Holyoke, Springfield, Windsor Locks, Hartford, Meriden, New Haven, Bridgeport, Stamford, New York City, Newark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, and New Carrollton.

Get around

Advance Transit bus service.

See

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

43.6499-72.31891 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, ☏ +1 802-698-8341.
43.6368-72.40562 Quechee Gorge.

Do

43.6447-72.31841 Center for Cartoon Studies, 94 South Main St, ☏ +1 802 295-3319. 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, ☏ +1 802 296-7000 (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, ☏ +1 802 291-9088.
^{[dead link]} Tip Top Cafe, 85 N. Main St, ☏ +1 802 295-3312.
AJ's Restaurant & Lounge, 40 Bowling Ln, ☏ +1 802 295-3071. 1 Get an under $20 meal.
C&S Pizza, 104 S Main St.
Yama, 96 Main St. West Lebanon, ☏ +1 603 298-5477. Nice Korean/Japanese cuisine. Average price $12.95 for a main course. Closed on Mondays.
Elixir Restaurant and Lounge, 188 South Main St, ☏ +1 802-281-7009.
Tuckerbox, 1 South Main St, ☏ +1 802 359-4041.

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, ☏ +1 802 299-2700.
Hotel Coolidge, 39 S Main St, ☏ +1 802 295-3118. 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

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