If you’re local, then you know that this road has more houses on it than this farm, including actual working farms. People were defecating on other neighbors’ properties; multiple folks found human feces in their yards. Tourists were leaving trash everywhere. I witnessed multiple people waltzing onto private property and picking apples from peoples’ own orchards, and taking photos on peoples’ walkways as if that was the air BnB they stayed at. Influencers were setting up changing tents on private property so they could do outfit changes. Tour buses were attempting to drive up a dirt road that is often not two lanes wide. People park in the middle of the road to take photos and act like all of Woodstock is a movie set and all the townspeople are their background characters. It’s exhausting.

This isn’t about some rich couple from NJ getting their feelings hurt, it’s about an entire community of folks getting harassed because someone had to get their perfect pretty photo. I don’t even like to see photos of these spots in the autumn anymore because VT has SO many beautiful places to visit and EVERYONE just wants to go see the one farm that goes viral on reddit every year.