From the town of Bennington you’ll want to head south down monument avenue, heading towards carpenter hill road. It’s maybe a 10-15 minute drive. Turn down carpenter hill and follow it down to north pownal road and back up route 7. This area is known as the shires of Vermont Byway. And it is really beautiful! We thoroughly enjoyed driving the BMW X3 around the windy mountain roads, and were actually quite impressed with how the car handled-and no this is not an ad! We just really were impressed!