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You don’t need to spend a fortune to participate in one of travel’s hottest trends. Here are some suggestions, including seaweed soaks, robotic massages, sound baths and sauna circuits.

Let’s start with the obvious. A “best-of” list for travel is more like a “I wish I had endless time and gobs of cash to go to a bunch of exotic places” list. What you’re about to read — if you’re brave enough to make it all the way through — are helpful suggestions.

Thirteen kilometres from Sugarbush ski area, Madbush Alpine Chalet was a classic roadhouse ski motel starting in the 1950s before devolving into ski bum housing in the '90s and finally falling into vacancy early in the new century. By 2021, local restauranteur Jonny Adler had driven past the decaying but well-located structure enough times to resolve to revive it.​

Vermont lives up to its reputation as the quintessence of fall-foliage perfection. Leaf peepers from Boston, New York, and elsewhere rubberneck on the easily accessible roads to the south, but Mad River Valley, in the heart of the Green Mountains, is worth the travel time.

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Ski- and bike-focused lodge Madbush Falls opened in
August within Vermont’s Mad River Valley, pairing locally sourced cuisine with equipment rentals from an on-site gear shop. ​

In the mountains of Vermont, meanwhile, Madbush Falls draws in true adrenaline seekers. Beloved by mountain bikers and skiers, the resort’s 30-foot waterfall cascades into a shallow plunge pool below.

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It’s primarily a restaurant/bar. But a new place in the Mad River Valley that’s tapping into Vermont’s growing mountain-biking crowd with access to trails, a place to stay and an in-house bike shop is also striving to be much more than that.

Avid and aspiring mountain bikers will be stoked to hear about Madbush Falls, a new bike and ski-centered basecamp that opened this summer in Vermont’s Green Mountains. The 20-acre property has all a mountain or gravel biker needs...

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There’s a new biking and skiing base camp in Mad River Valley, and hot damn, if MadBush Falls isn’t just what we all need this season. Don’t sweat it if you’re new to biking—rent equipment or take a guided ride.

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It’s primarily a restaurant/bar. But a new place in the Mad River Valley that’s tapping into Vermont’s growing mountain-biking crowd with access to trails, a place to stay and an in-house bike shop is also striving to be much more than that.

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