Vermont ski dorms, group ski accommodations
Great food...great people!
The Round Hearth at Stowe: Since 1988, your hosts, the Vigneau family, have owned New England’s premier youth group “dorm-style” facility. As a team, the Vigneau’s offer the perfect blend of skilled Manager & caring Host. Merry’s professional skill in operations & culinary management proves that group hospitality & dining can be exciting, comfortable, & delicious! Grady, a former college football coach, also holds a Columbia MBA.
We are a chaperone’s BEST friend! Endless activity, controlled egress, & 24 hour professional leadership.
- 100% youth group environment guaranteed! Perfect for high school group ski trips.
- For your health, comfort & peace of mind, we enforce a 100% smoke-free & substance-free environment.
- DJ Dance & Karoake Nights all winter!
- Stowe’s THREE biggest outdoor hot tubs soothe tired muscles -- young or old! -- no matter how fierce the winter weather!
- Our multi-purpose space, the Mansfield Room (w/ big screen TV!), is also perfect for meetings, services, ...
- Our Billiards Parlor, Game Room, & “yesteryear” ring tosses are sure to be big hits with the young and the young at heart!
- Food, Food, Food! All you can eat! All the time!
- Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Treats!
- New to Stowe? We’ll provide you a 1st morning “Mountain Services Guide” to lead you smoothly & confidently through the maze of rentals, lessons, ski & ride options, & even point out the best on-mountain cafeterias!
Our mission is to create for you, -- our customer -- the highest standard in fairly priced winter youth ski & ride group vacations, summer instructional sports camps, and art & educational programs, retreats and conferences for all ages. We will accomplish this through our commitment to you and to the highest moral & ethical standards, a healthy safe environment, and responsiveness to your needs as our partner.
“Stowe’s biggest fireplace is in Vermont’s most famous ski dorm. Around that fire, there have been more ski stories swapped & tales of derring-do told than in any one place in ski country!”
-- SKIING Magazine
“THE BEST Place to Board in the EAST!”
-- SNOWBOARD LIFE Mag.
#1Overall in Eastern North America!
--SKI & SKIING Magazines
“If you only ski once this winter, MAKE IT STOWE! This mountain is the real thing! From the legendary Front Four to the Tollroad, Stowe has something for everyone -- Steeps, cruisers, moguls, you name it. It’s the best!
-- NEW ENGLAND SKIER Magazine
WE ARE VERMONT’S YOUTH GROUP SPECIALISTS!
The Round Hearth Youth Group Lodge features:
- Safe, secure, & convenient location on the Stowe Mountain Resort’ access road.
- 24 hour “live-in” professional staff motivated to meet YOUR needs.
- Separate dorm wings for boys & girls featuring modern college dorm-style baths.
- Efficient & comfortable bunkrooms sleep an average of 6-8 guests each
- Semi-private rooms & baths for leaders-privacy w/out isolation from your kids!
- An unyielding pursuit of cleanliness of our facilities -- all for YOUR comfort.
- Hearty Homecooking w/ a full & always fresh salad bar
- ALL YOU CAN EAT! -- All the time! Including cookies on arrival, breakfasts, dinners & even après ski soup, cocoa & munchies!
- “Kids-oriented” self-contained social & entertainment complexes
- Perfect for high school group ski trips to Vermont
- Excellent, clean ski dorms located right here in Vermont
Ski & Ride Vermont's highest peak -- Legendary Mount Mansfield!
- 48 long trails to excite all abilities!
- 75% are beginner or intermediate
- 13 modern lifts ensure you'll ski & ride more & wait less!
- 8 passenger Gondola 2 Hi-Speed Quads
- 10 passenger Transfer Gondola between Spruce & Mansfield
- 340” of snowfall last winter + “Gold Standard” snowmaking = ALWAYS great conditions!
- Challenge yourself on Stowe's famed “Front Four” --
- Goat, National, Starr, & Liftline They are the nation’s best!
- Riders! -- Stowe has major league terrain parks that rock!
