Chittenden County Suburbs — Essex, Williston, Colchester

I-89 / US-2 / US-7 / VT-117 / VT-116

The suburban ring of Chittenden County around Burlington and South Burlington. Anchored by **Essex** (the town, including Essex Junction village — home to a major **IBM facility now owned by GlobalFoundries** — one of the largest semiconductor plants in the Northeast, employing several thousand), **Williston** (the major retail corridor along US-2 and Williston Road with Tafts Corners and the Maple Tree Place), **Colchester** (the largest town in the metro, stretching north along Lake Champlain with Malletts Bay), **Winooski** (a small dense city between Burlington and Essex, one of the smallest cities in the US by area), **Shelburne** (home to the Shelburne Museum — one of the top outdoor history museums in New England — and the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory), **Milton**, **Hinesburg**, **Richmond**, **Jericho** (home of the Snowflake Bentley Museum), **Underhill**, **Charlotte**, **Westford**, **Bolton** (home of Bolton Valley Ski Resort), **Huntington**, and **St. George**. The region is served by Green Mountain Transit (GMT) bus routes.