Alpendorf Avenue, Readsboro, VT 05350

Stake a claim on your own little piece of Vermont, at the foot of the Green Mountain National Forest. This 1.2-acre triangular lot rises up from the road and may allow peekaboo views of the surrounding valley starting in late-fall, once the region's famous foliage drops away. It's located in Alpenwald Village, with community-maintained roads rolling up and down the area's hilly topography. Today the village is home mostly to full-time Vermonters, though tourists are always passing through nearby Route 100, one of the most scenic drives in the country. Dutch Hill Recreation Area—today known for backcountry glade skiing—is walking distance from this location, and it's fifteen minutes to North Adams and the Massachusetts Berkshire Mountains. Thirty minutes to Mt. Snow, less than an hour to Brattleboro.