After five months of winter weather, there’s nothing quite as refreshing as a Vermont swimming hole on a hot summer day. Swimming holes in Vermont are part of what makes summer so awesome here, and ...

In this July 11, 2011 photo, a woman dives off a large rock into the cool waters at a local swim hole in Moretown, Vt. In Vermont, there are no ocean waves to bodysurf, no water parks to splash in.