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VT · 14 counties · 9,616 sq mi · print portrait · Northeast · New England
Blank Vermont map
A blank outline of Vermont, a tall wedge wider at the top than the bottom, with the Connecticut River down the east and Lake Champlain down the west. Fourteen county lines hidden.
What the outline shows
The map draws the state boundary. The north edge with Quebec is a straight line on the 45th parallel. The east edge is the Connecticut River, the entire New Hampshire border; the boundary lies on the Vermont bank, so the river belongs to New Hampshire. The south edge with Massachusetts is a short straight line. The west edge is a straight line against New York in the south, then the middle of Lake Champlain for the northern two-thirds. The lake is drawn only as far as the boundary, so the Vermont islands in the lake (Grand Isle, North Hero, Isle La Motte) appear inside the outline. Nothing else is shown. Press Capital to mark Montpelier in the centre-north, the smallest state capital by population, and Abbreviation for "VT".
Portrait or landscape
Vermont is about 160 miles from north to south and about 90 miles wide at the Canadian border, narrowing to about 40 miles at Massachusetts. Print in portrait. The wedge fills the page height and leaves wide margins, with more room on the lower half where the state narrows. Landscape turns the state sideways and shrinks it by about half. New Hampshire's outline is the mirror of Vermont's, and printing both in portrait side by side makes a useful comparison.
Five classroom exercises
- Draw the Green Mountains as a north–south ridge down the centre of the state and mark Mount Mansfield, the highest point.
- Trace the Connecticut River along the east edge and note that the state line sits on the Vermont bank, not in the middle of the river.
- Draw Lake Champlain along the western border with the islands of Grand Isle County inside it, and mark Burlington on its shore.
- Place Burlington, South Burlington, Rutland, Essex and Montpelier, and draw the Winooski River from Montpelier to Lake Champlain at Burlington.
- Draw the Otter Creek flowing north to Lake Champlain and explain why so many Vermont rivers flow north or west rather than south.
How to recognise the Vermont outline
- A tall wedge, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, the mirror image of New Hampshire.
- A straight top edge and a short straight bottom edge.
- A wavy right edge, the Connecticut River, from top to bottom.
- A left edge that is straight at the bottom and then runs through a long lake, with islands inside the line.
Answer key and related maps
- Vermont map — the labeled version with capital, cities and borders; use it as the answer key.
- Printable Vermont map — the same outline with cities, county lines and the capital printed on.
- Vermont county map — all 14 counties with their seats.
- Montpelier — the capital, the smallest by population in the country.
- Neighbours: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York blank maps.
- New England and Appalachian Mountains.
- All blank state maps and the printable US maps index.