Our History - A Tradition of Family Vacation Memories for Generations
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From Vermont family tenting community to a favorite U.S. destination family resortTyler Place Family Resort history spans six generations from 1800's tenting community to today's highly acclaimed destination family resort. On the Inn lawn where our grandparents met as 10-year-olds in 1874, our own grandchildren and guest children play today, sharing a common history of indelible family vacation memories.
The land which is now The Tyler Place Family Resort combines a former dairy farm and Victorian mineral waters spa and park. In the late 1890s our grandparents, great aunts and uncles, and their friends from surrounding towns hauled children, tents, and housekeeping paraphernalia to the shores of Shipyard Bay on Lake Champlain, where, for a few weeks out of the summer, they explored the woods, messed about in boats, went blackberrying, built tree houses, skinny dipped, burned their fingers over campfires, watched the moon rise over the lake, and relaxed. Later, family cottages replaced the tent sites, and automobiles replaced the horse-drawn wagons, but the flavor of summer has always remained the same.
Dedicated to all-incluisve family resort vacations for our entire 75 year history. Our parents, Edward J. and Judy Tyler ("Mrs. T.") acquired the property in 1933, together with Hildreth ("Hibby" Tyler) and John Wriston, our father's sister and her husband. Originally called The Tyler & Wriston Place, they were early pioneers in family travel. Building on their respective experiences as editor and author of children's books, Mrs. T. and Hibby developed creative, age-staggered children's programs and the concept of all-inclusive family vacations freed of dangling extra charges. To this day The Tyler Place Family Resort is one of the few resorts in the world to focus entirely on all-inclusive family vacations with imaginative children's programs and private "couple time" for parents.
Guests who loved the place as children now return with their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren for family reunions and to have the time of their lives all over again. In some ways we've grown up: the children's programs, facilities, sports equipment and dining are state-of-the-art, but the atmosphere and philosophy--the heart and history of the place--have stayed the same.
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P.O. Box 254, Highgate Springs Vermont, 05460 Phone: 802.868.4000 | Email: tyler@tylerplace.com
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