Stowe is home to two world-class spas: the Spa at Topnotch Resort (253-6463) and the Spa at Stoweflake Mountain Resort (253-7355). With booklets full of treatments, massaging waterfalls, and gender-specific hot tubs, saunas, and steamrooms, you could easily forget about skiing and spend the entire day at either spa.

Indoor tennis can be played at the Topnotch Tennis Center (253-9649) on the Mountain Road. The center has four indoor courts and offers lessons, round robins, and Boomer, a computer-guided ball machine that let's you play actual matches. In the Village, Jackson Arena has an Olympic-size ice skating rink (253-6148). The Swimming Hole (253-9229) has a 25-meter indoor pool, kids pool with waterslide, fitness classes and weight training equipment.

Rent snowmobiles at Nichols Snowmobiles (253-7239) or from Farm Resort (888-3525). The Sterling Ridge Inn (644-8265), in Jeffersonville, offers snowmobile tours of Smugglers' Notch. Horse-drawn sleigh rides take place at Edson Hill Manor (253-7371), Stowehof Inn (253-9722), Pristine Meadows (253-9901), Charlie Horse (253-2215), Stoweflake (253-7355), the Trapp Family Lodge (253-8511) and Topnotch (253-8585). Stowe also has horseback riding at Edson Hill Manor (253-7371) and Stowehof Inn (253-9722).

The Vermont Ski Museum is located on Main Street in Stowe Village. Ben and Jerry's ice cream factory (244-5641) is just down the road in Waterbury, and has tours that include samples. Winter is not nearly as busy as summer, so it's a good time to visit. The Cabot Cheese Factory (563-2231) is also open.

Stowe has more than a hundred shops and art galleries for browsing, most in town. Shaw's General Store is a century old and was the town's first ski shop. Other unusual shops are Moriarty Hats & Sweaters, for knitted goods, and the Stowe Craft Gallery for handcrafted, contemporary works. At the Cabot Annex complex, in Waterbury, you can purchase a wide variety of Vermont specialty foods. The complex also is home to Lake Champlain Chocolates (Yum!), Vermont Teddy Bears and Mesa International, which sells home furnishings.

Special events include the Stowe Winter Carnival in January, the country's oldest winter party; the Mountain Adventure Fest Tour de Stowe cross-country races, as well as the Stowe Derby—the country's oldest combination downhill/cross-country even—both held in February; the highly-competitive Sugar Slalom race, with maple-sugar-on-snow at the finish line, and the Stowe Snow Beach Party, both in April.