Accolades and Awards

No.1 in Top 10 Cities to Have it All: Arts and Entertainment TV, November 1999
No.1 and Graded A+ Overall on AOL for Kidfriendly Cities: AOL, September 2001
Safest State in the Nation (Vermont): Morgan Quitno Press, June 1996
Vermont is Nation's Healthiest State: Morgan Quitno Press, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
No.3 Healthiest State: United Health Foundation, Nov. 2004 (see full report titled "America's Health: State Health Rankings" at www.unitedhealthfoundation.org)
No.3 Best State for Healthy Kids: Child Magazine, 2005
No.1 Place for Families that Love Outdoor Sports: Outdoor Explorer Magazine, June 1999
No.1 on List of Seven "Dream Towns": Outside Magazine, June 1995
No.4 on UTNE Reader's List of Most Enlightened Towns: Utne Reader, May 1997
No.6 Best Family-Friendly Place in the Nation: Reader's Digest, April 1997
No.7 Hippest Arts Town in the US: 100 Best Small Arts Towns in America, John Villani, June 1996 [excerpts]
50 Places of a Lifetime (Vermont): National Geographic Traveller, October 1999
No.1 Best State for Women: Institute for Women's Policy Research, Nov. 2004 [pdf]
No.10 Best City for Women: Ladies Home Journal, November 1998
(and Burlington rated 3rd in 1997)
One of 4 Outstanding Getaways in the Northeast: USA Weekend magazine
One of 7 Best Retirement Locations: New England Choices; Living Made Better After 50 - February 1996
One of Top 10 Cities to Raise a Family: Parenting Magazine, 1997
No.1 Most Livable Cities with Population Under 100,000: The US Conference of Mayors, June 1997
Awarded the Great American Main Street Award: National Trust for Historic Preservation, April 1997
One of 15 Best Walking Cities in America: Walking Magazine, May 1998
No.5 "Boomtown, 75 Top Cities to Start a Business": Point of View magazine, December 1998/January 1999
One of 10 "College Towns Worth a Visit": Princeton Review - "The Best Colleges", October 1999
One of America's Ten Fittest Cities for Women: Health magazine, March 2000
One of 50 Best Places to Live: Maturity magazine, May/June 2000
One of 10 Great Places for Campus Culture: USA Today Travel Guide, November 1999
No.7 Most student-friendly U.S. City for populations under 1 million: Collegia, 2004
No.2 Happiest and No.4 Healthiest Place to Live in the U.S.: Self Magazine, 2004
One of the Five Best Places to Live and Ride: Bike Magazine, June 2003
One of America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations: The National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2005
One of the 50 Best Places to Live & Editor's Pick in the Northeast: Men's Journal Magazine, May, 2003
No.7 Best Small Cities to Do Business: Inc. Magazine, March, 2004
No.6 in the World for Destination Stewardship & Sustainable Tourism Initiative: National Geographic, June, 2004

Other Honors and Accolades

July 1968: Cited in Harper's magazine as a working model for the ideal American city
June 1991: Voted "Best in the Northeast" Inc. magazine in its "Best Cities for a Growing Business."
1993: Featured in book "50 Fabulous Places to Raise your family" by Lee and Saralee Rosenberg
June 1993: Best Place in the Nation for Raising Children by Zero Population Growth, Washington, D.C.
November 1993: Listed in a survey by Kimberley Stansee entitled "Top 10 Best Cities for running a Home-Based Business" in Home OfficeComputing magazine.
September 1995: One of five retirement cities listed in N.Y. Times Sunday Magazine: "The rise of the college city; the best new place to live."
1995: "A Good Place to Live" by Terry Pindell (A Good Place to Live: America's Last Migration)
May 1997: "Burlington: Northern Light" (Nation magazine)
1997: "A Latte Town" by the Weekly Standard ("The Rise of the Latte Town")
ENN Top 10: America's Most Environmentally Friendly Cities
(Environmental News Network), September 2000