• 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 Debuts as the Nation's Healthiest State
  Morgan Quitno Press, September 2001
• 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 here
• 50 Places of a Lifetime (Vermont)
  National Geographic Traveller, October 1999
• 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

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 it's "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