Many restaurants in St. J feature Vermont's favorite ingredient 365 days a year. But, during the Kingdom Maple Festival's Maple Menu Takeover, we've challenged our local restaurants to take it up a notch and highlight locally-produced maple syrup on their menus all weekend long.

Friday, February 14th is approaching, and St. Johnsbury's businesses are pulling out all the stops for a fantastic Valentine's Day weekend.

​Read on for our annual dining, shopping, and activity guide with dozens of ideas to celebrate your loved one.

UPDATE: St. Johnsbury's most recent flooding event is still unfolding on July 30, 2024. The resources below will be updated as more information becomes available.

​On July 11, 2024--one year to the day after last year's devastating flooding--communities around Vermont were impacted once again. In St. Johnsbury, massive flooding on Memorial Drive, Concord Avenue, and elsewhere have caused tremendous damage. Now, one week later, residents and businesses are still working to clean up, muck out, and rebuild their lives.

Discover St. Johnsbury is working with the Town of St. Johnsbury, Kingdom United Resilience & Recovery Effort (KURRVE), NEK Organizing, the NEK Chamber of Commerce, and dozens of other partners to respond to the needs of our community members and businesses in the Northeast Kingdom. Read on to find out how you can help the St. Johnsbury community recover:

Is the threat of showers putting a damper on your summer lake life or trail time? St. Johnsbury is the perfect destination to keep you and your crew entertained no matter the weather, with activities to delight kids, teens, and adults. Read on for some ideas, or stop by the Welcome Center at 51 Depot Square to talk to our trained information booth staff.

It's time for another Maple Menu Takeover! Kingdom Maple Festival on Saturday, April 20 is St. Johnsbury's day to celebrate our status as the "Maple Center of the World". As part of the festival, we've challenged our local restaurants and food vendors to highlight locally-produced Vermont maple on their menus.
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Check out the specials available at the following restaurants and food vendors on the day of the festival, or for some, all year long.

Every year, Discover St. Johnsbury prepares a report compiling business changes within our downtown district. For the past few years, we've been happy to share record-breaking totals of new businesses, and 2023 was no exception.

Please join us in welcome the seventeen (!!!) new businesses who opened or relocated to St. Johnsbury's downtown last year: