At Seven Days, we're always on the lookout for interesting stories about Vermont. Our culture staffers write about amazing local destinations almost every week — often long-form, comprehensive, time-sensitive pieces. Although great reading upon publication, they soon get buried on our website among all our other news, food and arts content. That approach to coverage doesn't lend itself to the "concierge" level of guidance that friends and family often require when they come here to ski, leaf-peep or sample the state's best brews. In late August I hosted friends from San Diego who know the state well enough to have compiled a list of things they wanted to do. In the course of a few days, we hiked Barre's Millstone Trails and biked to the end of the Colchester Causeway. We went to Bread and Puppet Theater, Hill Farmstead Brewery and Lake Willoughby. We broke bread at Red Hen Baking, Mirabelles, Blackbird Bistro, Deep City and Harry's Hardware. I saw more of Vermont in three days than I normally do in a year. Full disclosure: At one point I had to email our food writers to make sure I wasn't leading the group astray. We all need a little help navigating this place we call home, to connect Vermont's natural wonders with its cultural and culinary ones. That takes comprehensive, up-to-date, easy-to-use intel. We've long wanted a landing page on our site that compiles in one place all we've written about Vermont destinations — a handy guide for locals and visitors alike. For it to really be a helpful resource, we'd need to repackage our stories into an evergreen, timeless format — quick listings that can serve as an itinerary. Over the years we've rolled these out in special publications such as What's Good, our former guide for college students; and the pandemic-era Staytripper, which helped readers reacquaint themselves with in-state attractions. We've also compiled event-focused itineraries for job seekers attending the Vermont Tech Jam and, more recently, for our 2024 Solar Eclipse Guide, which was produced in partnership with the state tourism department. The department loved our bite-size itineraries — for 10 towns in the path of totality — so much that its staffers asked us to write a bunch more. We agreed to compile mini guides to 28 towns as part of a paid content-licensing arrangement in which the state gets the stories for its Vermont Vacation…