Sleigh Ride Week Featured at Billings Farm & Museum
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT... Billings Farm & Museum's Sleigh Ride Week is scheduled for February 13 - 21, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This popular winter week will feature sleigh rides, sledding with jack jumper sleds, tours of the dairy farm and farmhouse, and interactive programs.
Climb aboard the Billings Farm sleigh for a ride through the frosty farm fields and take a turn with a jack jumper sled. On the weekends, in commemoration of President's Day, sample favorite cookies of the Presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill Sand Tarts, James Buchanan's Apees, Franklin Pierce's New Hampshire Seeds, and George Washington's Jumbals.
In the barns, discover Vermont dairying – past and present – and learn about the development of the Billings Farm, still one of the best Jersey farms in America. The horse barn, calf nursery, milk room, cow barn, and sheep barn are stops along the self-guided tour. Up-close programs with the livestock will be offered.
The restored and furnished 1890 Farm House will be open for touring, featuring the farm office, family living quarters, creamery, and ice house.
Sleigh Ride Weekend admission includes sleigh rides and sledding, the farm, farm house, and activities, plus A Place in the Land, an Academy Award® nominee film. Admission: adults: $12.00; 62 & over: $11.00; children 5-15: $6.00; 3-4: $3.00; 2 & under: free.
