Through the Mad River Valley in early October, Route 100 is a slow two-lane under maples, the ridgelines red and gold on both sides and a line out the creemee window at the Warren Store. The motorhome version of this road settles into two bases, one near Woodstock and Killington and one up at the Stowe end, with the days spent driving the color between them. Nobody packs up every morning, which is most of the point with kids in the back.
Both bases are private parks, because Vermont's state campgrounds run on a no-hookup model and Grand Isle State Park's page lists no RV hookups at all. A family in a 30-foot rig books Quechee Pine Valley for the southern half of the week and Smugglers Notch RV Village in Jeffersonville for the northern half. If it's two of you and you'd rather sleep in the state parks and stop at Quechee Gorge, that lighter version of the trip is on the Vermont campervan page.
Into Vermont and the Quechee end of Route 100
Route 100's southern stretch climbs past Mount Snow, and from the summit Somerset Reservoir lies out in the middle of the color. Coming up I-91 from Massachusetts or New Hampshire, a rig can break the drive at Brattleboro North KOA Journey on US-5 in East Dummerston. Coming up US-7 from the Berkshires or New York, Pine Hollow Campground in Pownal has full hookups with 30/50 amp and pull-throughs.
The southern state parks at Emerald Lake, Woodford and Fort Dummer, green water and tent-scale sites, are covered on the campervan page.
Quechee Pine Valley, the park that used to be the Quechee KOA, holds the southern half of the week, and it doubles as a first night for a rig that arrives late. From there US-4 runs west through Woodstock to Killington, where Route 100 turns north, so the first days are out-and-back drives with the rig left on its site and the evenings back at camp.
Waterbury, Stowe and the Jeffersonville end
North of the Mad River Valley the road drops into Waterbury, where half the leaf traffic seems to turn into the Ben & Jerry's lot, then climbs on toward Stowe. Smugglers Notch RV Village in Jeffersonville is the back-half base, with water, sewer and 20/30 or 50 amp at the site, on pull-through and back-in pads. That makes it the night to empty the tanks and refill before the lake.
Mount Mansfield and Smugglers' Notch are the big days out from Jeffersonville, and the Burlington campervan page covers the hiking and the Notch.
Down in Morrisville, Mountain View Campground sits on the Lamoille with river access, an outdoor pool and the rail trail at the gate. Its RV-only pads are back-in with full hookups, but the park is closed for 2026, with 2027 bookings opening in early January, as of October 2026.
Northeast of Stowe, Lake Willoughby between its cliffs and the ponds of Groton State Forest make up the Northeast Kingdom side of the state, and the Vermont campervan page has those nights.
Booking a Route 100 foliage week
Foliage runs late September into mid October, and those are the weeks half of New England wants a motorhome and a hookup pad at the same time. The rigs and the pads sell out together, so reserve both parks first, ask each one for its length limit, and rent the motorhome that fits the smaller site.
Grand Isle State Park on Lake Champlain
West of the mountains, Grand Isle State Park runs along the Lake Champlain shore, and at dusk the Adirondacks line up across the water in a long blue skyline. It's a popular park and the week's dry night, so the rig arrives with full water and leaves by way of the park's RV sanitary dump station. Sites that take a motorhome go first, so reserve one before you book the rig.
The rest of the Champlain Islands make a day of their own, and the Burlington campervan page has that drive.