Residents in one Vermont town tell influencers to stay away l GMA

Residents near Sleepy Hollow Farm have pushed the town to pass a measure banning tourists from visiting the area from Sept. 23 through Oct. 15 of this year.
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[@gpaula2232]

We're heading to Vermont this week. I'm a Florida native and have never experienced a true fall season. When I first saw many of these posts on Instagram, I honestly wanted to visit this location myself. I then did more research and learned that this farm was private property. After I read about the chaos the visitors were causing in this location, I immediately took this spot off my itinerary as I didn't want to contribute any further to the problem. We're staying in Stowe and plan to hike in the state parks instead. I can completely sympathize for these residents, I can only put myself in their shoes for a minute and it's quite simple to understand their frustration. I agree with their actions.

[@CuriousEarthMan]

Watch out for the dear ticks that carry Lyme disease! Research that too! Have a good time! Color changes are miraculous!

[@HolicChan]

Just remember, you are a bad person and easily influenced

[@aposteriori421]

Sure you did

[@StinkyGreenBud]

Stowe is ruined. Nothing but second homes, airbnbs, and rich asshole flatlanders.

[@jerrygil1965]

Come to parks but not private property

[@meahdahlgren6537]

❤❤❤❤

[@jackchop1576]

I grew up there and honestly, there are places ALL OVER Vermont that look just like this place.

[@clarep.7907]

absolutely!! vermont is so beautiful in the fall. so many places to visit, other than someones private farm!!

[@angelasieg5099]

I understand how they feel. We live next to public hunting and fishing land, King's Creek is on the property line. Even though we post private property no trespassing signs they come every year damaging the land, crops and even our family's hunting stands. They all act stupid and outraged when asked to leave. We had a group come out and started harvesting ginseng on timber preserve designated land that is a pine tree nursery damaging young saplings and ripping up the soil.

[@meahdahlgren6537]

❤❤❤❤

[@seankingwell3692]

farmers and warriors are supposed to be one and the same, Empire rules over farmers who have no spine. Time to fight back. You feed a nation, you can't let these people threaten that.

[@johnraviella6561]

@@seankingwell3692instagrammers aren’t empires lol

[@cals6057]

Who and what was first..you or the public hunting?

[@unadomandaperte]

We need drone blocking technology. A device that overrides (not disable) a drone's program to prevent it from venturing into protected properties. By law, all drones must be equipped to respond accordingly to blocking signals.

[@herchelleonwood7463]

how could a drone be overridden w/o disabling it ? they would all crash,, which actually is ok with me !!

[@unadomandaperte]

@@herchelleonwood7463 they would be like a code that all drones have to understand to return to their owner. Think of the early Star Trek introduction of the Borg. When one of the crew members managed to disable one of them, they would transport back to the cube.

[@camilo8cheryl]

The newer tiny pocket silent drone can fly up to a distance of 20 kilometers, you wont even hear them above 150 feet

[@dianewalker9154]

Folks can’t just trespass over private property.

[@goldieslacks]

Christopher Columbus did.

[@harley8680]

@@goldieslacks how dumb

[@citylimit33]

@@goldieslacksand because of that your OK with folks trespassing onto your private property and invading your personal space????

[@RMBlake007]

@@goldieslacks No, the entire northern Continent was not "private land". The warring factions between the Native tribes are proof that even before CC, lands were being fought over & lines being crossed & "redrawn". It was survival of the fittest. If you think CC was trespassing then you should also include a list of thousands of other explorers & conquerors who did the same over 1000's of years in recent history. Like the Greeks, Romans, Mongols, the Ottoman Turks, the Vikings, the Spanish & Portuguese, the French, the Dutch, & the list goes on & on. It's ridiculous to think the entire globe would never have explorers & everyone, everywhere would always stay within a 5 mile radius from where they were born.

[@goldieslacks]

@@RMBlake007 so if I go and discover some millions from a bank does that mean it's mine?

[@NY_7]

Social media is one of the worst things to happen to society.

[@BlackFemaleAnd50]

If not *THE* worst.

[@marshapelo9830]

Put up a toll road and start chaging big bucks.

[@citylimit33]

its a one lane dirt road 😂 toll roads are not the answer

[@clav93089]

I grew up in Vermont. There are so many beautiful places to view and photograph, and many people would even allow it on their private properties if you asked, but not like this! Respect people's properties and boundaries and take a hint from the quaint, quiet scenery and enjoy it in tranquility rather than make it your own private photoshoot.

[@shirleyhall5559]

Wow, I agree with the locals. Please, people, have some respect 😊

[@meahdahlgren6537]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@katheleenchaney4871]

My sister came home to find an entire family picnicking on her lawn. Car parked on grass, and left a ton of trash behind. people suck.

[@Yodie208]

They pull their cars onto the front lawns to park.The tires leave deep ruts as well as destroy the grass, especially if the grass is wet. If you ask them not to park on the grass they often get angry and of coarse now you are a Karen or a Ken.

[@JTK11]

I’m so glad I got to travel all around Vermont during fall of 2020, it was very quiet and peaceful there. Stayed in the green mountains most of the time.

[@niknikki86]

Same! It was so beautiful in the Green Mountains in 2020.

[@GamerplayerWT]

“Leaf Me Alone”? Really?

[@brooks8792]

How difficult that must be for you at your home. Hope you have a peaceful fall this year.

[@tanayanottanyabrooks8085]

They should gate-keep their private property. It’s invasive. People can be so disrespectful rude and entitled. On another interview the couple said people were bringing portable changing rooms. Smh

[@RamenNoodle1985]

Bruh, that wasn't Vermontcore, that was pure LL Bean

[@shopnstuff8228]

imagine planning a trip.. just to see some leaves and trees... sweet Lord

[@poopsitoutgaming7575]

Its not just leaves and trees. With a good vantage point. You can see an entire land of red, purple, orange, yellow, and green.

[@rumanauddin811]

I miss New England during autumn. I miss home! Man, going to college in a non- New England state messes up everything 😢. Enjoy the leaves everyone and don’t forget to have the kids jump on the “crispy” leaves.

[@herchelleonwood7463]

you need some crack.

[@harley8680]

Have a Kleenex. You did not have to go to school out of state. In fact, you probably would have saved Mommy and Daddy $$$ staying at home. 🙄

[@rumanauddin811]

@@harley8680 Can't and don't rely on my Mommy or Daddy's money, its my second degree honey, so save that kleenex tissue. Try getting one in nursing with a kid in Mass then get back to me. 🙄

[@neinkalando2519]

I live in Washington county Vermont and that is a problem for Montpelier with peepers coming

[@gasparma2316]

Commoners like usual not knowing how to act and respect others private property

[@seankingwell3692]

communists mostly...

[@FalconsEye58094]

Call the state troopers so that these people learn their lessons. The law is more important than your picture

[@davidellis5141]

Lol 😆 the leaves 🍃 change colors 🤣

[@citylimit33]

they arent looking for a profit, sir 😂

[@KimWH.2]

Tell them to stay out of Nashville also

[@tjfreno69]

Oh no! How awful 😢

[@laurasutcliffe723]

Can we please stop calling instagram people “influencers”? Lol

[@maryeliason1504]

Nearby falls had a mile long line of cars waiting to enter. There is usually an empty or almost empty parking lot. From being posted on internet

[@chickenmama823]

Geez Will Reeve looks more like his dad as he ages.

[@caligirllala1267]

Was just thinking the same thing! ❤

[@NoOneHere2Day]

So rare when a son looks like his father.

[@roriemcfadden6097]

​@@NoOneHere2DaySo does his older brother. Will looks like such a nice blend of both of his parents. ❤

[@thisisahardworldtofigureout]

Exactly! I agree!

[@cebedojames]

they should charge 1000 dollars for parking

[@davidhardwick3816]

I don't blame them a bit.

[@piperlynne1]

OMG! Are people really so clueless they park on people's lawns and fly drones over their homes? I can only imagine the garbage that people would leave behind not to mention the human waste since there are no toilets. People always have to wreck it for the ones who can be respectful. So sad that this town has to resort to this but they should do what they need to do to keep all those people out.

[@angelisa368]

Exactly! Well said. WTF is the matter with people?!? Just no respect and consideration!! The de-evolution of humanity continues.

[@NickleForYourThoughts]

id be charging people money to park on my lawn, lawn is going to die in the winter anyway who cares lolol

[@seankingwell3692]

they don't leave when asked you people need to stop being stupid. Money doesn't do everything in replacement of action.

[@citylimit33]

some people have jobs, sweetheart 😂 they dont have time to stand around for days playing parking attendant

[@Island_Line_Rail_Productions]

so you want to fill in the ruts left from the tires?

[@joshaunnawashington2340]

yeah it is not okay so be on folks private property, i would charge a fortune

[@blenk9607]

I won't bitch about the leaf peeping tourons here in my corner of the Finger Lakes of NY anymore, this is crazy

[@shanicebrwon9831]

Things and time changes, ten years ago wasn't like now, likewise the next 10 won't be the same as now

[@sess122]

The downfall of mankind? The internet.

[@herchelleonwood7463]

VERY close,, actually the rethugliKKKan propaganda on the internet is what destroys the world !

[@churghee2388]

Okay ohh right 👍

[@scottclk2]

They most likely where leaf peepers from the Tri State area when they found that perfect Vermont Farm on a country road to buy😂

[@PhyllisTinaSophia99]

good for you

[@tlockerk]

Seems a little churlish, but lots of areas have these problems. Maybe posting limits or selling passes? Or maybe they dont need more money, sure there are small towns that would welcome thrm.

[@casie707]

Sucks living in a tourist town, doesn't it? Sincerely, Sonoma County, CA.

[@marcmaza2821]

I’ve been goin there since I saw little I got families there it’s gotten a lot crazy over there! I know my secret photography spot where I go ;)

[@carla2016]

Yes it does. Sincerely Leavenworth WA

[@E20Launderette]

Hey, can we tell tourists that NYC is off limits to them too? Because just about every New Yorker I know would love to ban them.

[@karenmbbaxter]

No problem.....I don't want to go to The Rotten Apple anyway......I don't see what the fuss is all about.

[@sterlingmatsui154]

Wouldn't visit Rat & Crime City if you paid for my trip~Besides, with y'all being a "Sanctuary City", there will be a million more Migrants staying in the streets soon:)

[@harley8680]

@@karenmbbaxter Exactly!

[@harley8680]

@@sterlingmatsui154 The movie Escape from New York had the best idea. House all prisoners there and leave them to fend for themselves!

[@citylimit33]

tell me more about how you DO NOT understand the concept of posted private property 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@angelisa368]

Can’t blame them. A few inconsiderate, entitled assholes, ruin everything for the rest of us.

[@Calibizaro]

"Vermont-core" clothes??? 😂😂😂 Believe me... we can easily spot out of staters... aka Flatlanders

[@Mikeyfromtheblock1]

wow this was super boring to watch

[@jasongraham2863]

Come to Utah instead! I'll show you the best spots. We have awesome bright red and orange leaves in the canyons around where I live

[@Anonymous.24.]

Addicted to cameras.

[@gurudutt4179]

I'm siding with the old couple and the residents but, you cant name a farm Sleepy Hollow Farm and expect Instadumbos to not flock!! But then again, I'd completely understand if these guys didnt know Insta' #LifeWithoutFilters :))

[@renze1122]

yeah respect its a private property….😌😌🙌🏻🙌🏻💯💯

[@dark14life]

How sad your life must be when you have to find happiness in Likes and Shares. Influencers are vermin.

[@followthrewdgc9778]

Lol it’s Stowe

[@steelcarnations2207]

Hahahaha wow. Please. Try living in Estes Park, or Aspen, or Sedona, or Napa Valley, or Deadwood, etc etc but ALL YEAR round! This is only one season...lighten up New Englanders. But yeah...I WOULD cite the actual tresspassers, and beebee gun down those drones though. That's unacceptable.

[@katheleenchaney4871]

keep your money. spend it in NJ

[@StinkyGreenBud]

This isn't a competition dude...

[@tittyskillet3413]

Its still a public road with public easements. This is a free country and we can go anywhere in public wo restriction. So in Vermont, only the residents are allowed to be there and enjoy the foliage. All visitors need to go home, and take your tourist dollars with you.

[@shaggydawg5419]

true but when wealthy Karens are upset, they will do everything the can to keep you away from their affluent neighborhood.

[@TheBlueThird]

Would you want people crowding where you live? Asking you where the parking area is? Trampling on your lawn and taking pictures on your front lawn? The homeowners said there were place people could go without defacing their property.

[@shaggydawg5419]

@@TheBlueThird that really depends on what they do. As long as they're outside my property, on public road, I won't do anything. Yes, I've been to sleepy hollow farm. Wasn't so crowded when I was there a few years ago. Visitors took pictures from outside the property. No one bothered us.

[@halfgeek1394]

We don’t need your money 😂

[@jasondeslatte7611]

@@tittyskillet3413 said growing numbers of humans every day when they see how modern society is becoming actually

[@lyniereese1150]

Who cares about the leaves!!! Will Reeve is the hottest guy I have literally ever seen.

[@user-es9tj4xw5t]

When you put something out there to make money, the downside is that it’s out there. Your biggest industry is tourist, downside is….well, there’s tourists.

[@seankingwell3692]

no downside is local poverty as the "way of life" becomes mere entertainment for tourists children are groomed in schools to serve Ottomans.

[@citylimit33]

i dont think you have any idea how the “tourism industry” works dumbazz 😂 that doesnt mean “tourists” are entitled to roam posted private property 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@thisisahardworldtofigureout]

Oh how pretty!

[@Anna-hu6ob]

What?? You mean making roads one way exasperated the problem?? NOOOO WAY. Omg. I get ppl need to respect the place but let’s not kill American freedom in the process. It’s one thing to enforce no trespassing. It’s another to ban tourism.

[@jed4131]

I don’t think invading private property and annoying others with entitled behavior is protected by the constitution bud. 😂

[@seankingwell3692]

A Karen defending cultural Marxism, can you read what your saying? You communists never change. You love being fat and priviledged but hate farmers for trying to grow food without it being ruined by tourists.

[@citylimit33]

who said tourists were “banned”???? LOL! you didnt listen to the story obviously 😂

[@jenniferfeckler2853]

Your freedom ends when you encroach on another's freedoms.

[@Blondie77128]

“Influencers” 🙄

[@dfa3366]

These visitors do not benefit the local economy....just a nuisance and it will cost the community money to polite their visit.

[@peasndough]

Boo hooooo

[@poopsitoutgaming7575]

Just for the love of god people. Stop throwing your dam trash all over our dirt roads. Nothing is worse than seeing a cup from what a burger on my property. Though I'll admit, the colors are nice. But we get alot of disrespectful city dwellers up here. Parking on lawns and littering. How would you like looking out your window, to see that tourists are on your front porch taking selphies for tik tok. Oh and they also piled up a bunch of leaves onto the porch. Then left behind their coffee cups. Truly disghusting.

[@HolicChan]

I just stay tf, it’s just leaves, just remember you are a bad person who is easily influenced.

[@tl1533]

They can't stop people from exploring the neighborhood as long as they respect the residents' properties.

[@harley8680]

Do you see anything respectful about the photos of people and cars on here? No, I thought not.

[@herchelleonwood7463]

actually they can enact ordinances to keep people out ,its called living in a representative democracy.

[@citylimit33]

false. they can, and have! and the sheriffs department will be there to enforce it 🙂

[@snazzycatz]

I live in northern Vermont. It's a couple weeks a year. Big deal. Those leaf peeps buy meals at local restaurants. Buy gas etc.... Much bigger things to deal with than some minor inconvenience a couple weeks a year. Oh my lawn! Oh the traffic a few hours during daytime. Get a grip fellow Vermonters. Stop karening.

[@seankingwell3692]

yeah who cares about farmers being harassed and crop losses from destructive tourists farmers only feed the entire nation right can't be that important to care about. YOU SEE PEOPLE, SNAZZYKARENCATZ LADY HERE IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF CULTURAL MARXISM BEING DEFENDED BY A KAREN.

[@seankingwell3692]

A Karen defending cultural Marxism, can you read what your saying? You communists never change. You love being fat and priviledged but hate farmers for trying to grow food without it being ruined by tourists.

[@jasondeslatte7611]

there are no local resteraunts there or gas,these high brows are too good for you small towns you are just a play thing to them

[@snazzycatz]

​@jasondeslatte7611 well, ar least I'm someone's play thing lol.

[@Jimirulz1]

karening?

[@user-qm2li8zx2d]

Karentown.

[@runfayalife]

Rich people cryin' ...

[@semipenguin]

First world problems

[@seankingwell3692]

A Karen defending cultural Marxism, can you read what your saying? You communists never change. You love being fat and priviledged but hate farmers for trying to grow food without it being ruined by tourists.

[@MissTi23]

Well isn’t this rich…I wonder how many of these folks invaded somebody’s neighborhood or private property to go to a concert or football game in the big city??

[@starknaked1739]

Concerts and football games tend to have parking dip shit.

[@MissTi23]

@@starknaked1739 says the person who has obviously never lived near a large venue. Newsflash… the parking is never adequate. And even if it were, there’s no accounting for tens of thousands descending on a community in a 6 hour window.

[@starknaked1739]

"The parking is never adequate and even if it where " kind of cancels your claim of your original statement.

[@StinkyGreenBud]

Vermontcore??? Lol what nob.

[@treborretsnom6186]

Nope... it doesn't sound like a private property issue, it's all about roads and traffic... right? If someone does trespass they are subject to arrest, but the constitution says we Americans have a right to free travel across the continent.

[@citylimit33]

welp, not in this case 😂 because the road has been shut by the sherifs department to any non-local residents lol

[@treborretsnom6186]

​@@citylimit33the county sheriff's office is not the final word of law pertaining to public roadways. Give it time and a class action lawsuit 👍😁

[@citylimit33]

@@treborretsnom6186 no ones bringing a class action lawsuit, you clown 😂 the issue is really not as deep as you think it is

[@jenniferfeckler2853]

​@@treborretsnom6186no, cities have been blocking off areas in certain towns for decades. They are called ordinances. Especially if the road leading to the town is privately owned.

[@marcospedropallone]

Kkkkkkk

[@thomaswilson7441]

😲

[@purple9533]

You people should be ashamed of yourselves. Acting like fools just for those likes.

[@ddvantandar-kw7kl]

I mean i don't understand people across the planet they are ready to contribute and you think you are different

[@ddvantandar-kw7kl]

They can not even dreams

[@dhaloh]

Maybe instead of being annoyed about people taking photos of amazing landscapes, capitalize on it and open up a family restaurant or an expensive bed and breakfast? I would definitely see this a chance to not only help the tourists but to earn money from doing so instead of whining online.

[@karenmbbaxter]

I agree but the problem is one particular scenic spot is a working farm. They want to keep it that way and staff need to easily drive on that road to get to work......They could put up a big hotel on the farm too but there would be no trees and falling leaves left to visit because the space would be taken up with a big hotel.

[@dhaloh]

@@karenmbbaxter Lol you don't need a big hotel. Open up a small house with multiple beds as a hostel or a small house with room for max 4 people. Make it a limited experience only available for the few lucky people that can afford it. Tell the city you need more roads or parking because of the influx of tourism. The city should solve that problem if it's a public road.

[@harley8680]

WoW just WoW

[@wjfaust]

Maybe people can have their private property without needing to deal with Instagram idiots much less capitalize on them. How about people just being able to live their friggin lives?

[@Jimirulz1]

​@@wjfaustYes, influencers need to go back under the rock they crawled from.

[@vidatwynham2482]

Get over it people. You can’t stop tourists. Especially the misbehaving ones 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@citylimit33]

no ones stopping tourists from coming, they are welcome to come. however in this one case, in an area where they cause disturbances and safety concerns, the town decided to shut the road. so they in fact DID put a stop to the “misbehaving” ones

[@williamarnest4928]

Awwww so sad. You won’t stop social media. If you don’t want them on your property then but of fences. Also there is such a thing called the second amendment. If you don’t want people on your precious property then put up signs that say “No trespassing. Violators will be shot “. It’s that simple. So stop your whining

[@TheBlueThird]

Actually, that's not good advice. The second amendment doesn't absolve you from criminal charges for shooting unarmed, non-threatening people. Use your head; breathe deeply... calm down and take a Prozac. Let law enforcement handle it.

[@brianthebee5845]

I’m pretty sure a sign doesn’t give you a right to gun down trespassers.

[@williamarnest4928]

@@beammeup9504 you make a good point but if you get a good lawyer that’s not corrupt by politics or money, yes I know they are to come by, then that argument won’t happen. Also what I would do is let any law enforcement know that I have that sign posted and I’m not joking. So that way when they get a call to come to my house for an injured they are prepared.

[@williamarnest4928]

@@TheBlueThird ok what happens when those trespassers are armed and police are 5 minutes out. You could be dead in 5 minutes.

[@williamarnest4928]

@@brianthebee5845 yeah it kinda does. Especially when it says violators will be shot. But I wouldn’t go out and just start shooting randomly. I would give them one warning to get off my property.

[@LittlePumpkin6]

Let them in, it's God's country NOT theirs!!

[@citylimit33]

actually, thats not true at all 😂 these people pay the taxes on the property, that fucktard god has nothing to do with it LOL

[@tanyaleeletourneau3344]

Yeah we really dont want you here in our way. Stay away. Do Not tresspass almost every single person owns a gun.