BURLINGTON VERMONT HAS IT ALL
Main Street Landing
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 is Nation’s Healthiest State
Morgan Quitno Press, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005
No.3 Healthiest State
United Health Foundation, Nov. 2004 (see full report titled “America’s Health: State Health Rankings” at www.unitedhealthfoundation.org)
No.3 Best State for Healthy Kids
Child Magazine, 2005
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]
50 Places of a Lifetime (Vermont)
National Geographic Traveller, October 1999
No.1 Best State for Women
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Nov. 2004 [pdf]
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
No.7 Most student-friendly U.S. City for populations under 1 million
Collegia, 2004
No.2 Happiest and No.4 Healthiest Place to Live in the U.S.
Self Magazine, 2004
One of the Five Best Places to Live and Ride
Bike Magazine, June 2003
One of America’s Dozen Distinctive Destinations
The National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2005
One of the 50 Best Places to Live & Editor’s Pick in the Northeast
Men’s Journal Magazine, May, 2003
No.7 Best Small Cities to Do Business
Inc. Magazine, March, 2004
No.6 in the World for Destination Stewardship & Sustainable Tourism Initiative
National Geographic, June, 2004
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 its “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