Cabot Cheese Factory Tour

We stopped recently at the Cabot Visitor Center in Cabot, VT. This place is not all that easy to get to from southern NH!

In the main visitor center there is a gift shop and in the back of the store there is a table set up to sample many, many different variations of cheese (including some that I never even heard of). They also had dips and spreadable cheese to sample as well! Very good.

The tour is $2 (with children under 12 free). Assume this pays for the sampling.

At the beginning of the tour there is 5 - 10 minute movie which gives you the history of Cabot, its standards, etc. After the movie the tour guide takes you down a single hallway. On both sides there is glass windows to each part of the plant. We witnessed sourcream being packaged and cheese being made in a huge long vat. Although I must say not much was happening when we visited. This is a live working plant and the hallway can get busy. We exited the same way we entered.

Overall I thought the tour was good. However I did not get a real understanding of how their products are made. The place was much smaller than I expected.

We did pick up some colby jack and cheddar blocks along with some of the yummy dips.