Vermont

Texas Falls

From the 50 State Visitor Guide :

13 V.S.A. 2021 §§5401 through 5414; C.V.R. 28-050-002

Registration Triggers and Deadlines:

Initial registration within 10 days of establishing residency, which is means 10 or more consecutive days in the state.  §5407.

Visitors intending to reside for 10 consecutive days or 30 days in a calendar year must register within 10 days of arrival. C.V.R. 28-050-002 §3.8

Updates within 3 days.§5407

Residency/Presence and Other Restrictions:

None.  However, note that visiting Registrants once placed on state’s registry ARE NOT REMOVED (per Rolfe Survey and confirmed by state registry office).

Duration & updates:

10 years to life. SVPs update every 10 days; all others annually. §5407.

Ben & Jerry's Factory

Most recent visit: May 2023

Vermont is a small state, winters are brutal because it’s about as far north as you can get and still be in the U.S., and it’s far from everything because it’s parked way up in America’s upper right hand corner.  

The good news is that Vermont places very few restrictions on its registered citizens or visitors, you’re allowed to vote, and depending on your offense you can get off this state’s registry in as little as 10 years.  The bad news is that once you’re off the registry you’re stuck in Vermont, a tiny state with brutal winters and far from everything.  That’s why I didn’t consider Vermont as a possible summer home location.

However, it’s a great place to visit, which I did in May 2023 for the first time since coming home from prison.  I crossed Lake Champlain into the state at Chimney Rock late in the afternoon.  My first priority was to find a campground for the night.  I found Branbury State Park, which is quite nice and has bath houses, but then discovered that these are pay showers that take tokens that can only be purchased at the park office which was open when I checked in but closed for the night soon thereafter and wouldn’t open until 9:00 am by which time I would be gone.  

Early the next morning I left a note on the office door telling them I think they should offer to sell campers these tokens right at check-in.  Then I was on my way, taking Scenic State Road 100 northward toward the Ben & Jerry’s factory tour in the town of Waterbury.  There are several beautiful waterfalls along the way including Texas Falls, Moss Glen Falls and Warren Falls.

It had been, I believe, about two decades since the last time I’d been to Ben & Jerry’s, so I had forgotten just how crappy that tour is.  Oh well. From there I zipped down I-89 to Quechee Gorge, which is impressive but hard to get close to except for the most intrepid.

After that it was time for me to head for Bradbury Mountain State Park in Maine, where for one thing I had told my local sheriff’s department in Iowa I would be that night.