South Hero shares an island with Grand Isle, for which the county is named. South Hero is the second of the Hero Islands in northeastern Lake Champlain named in honor of the early Vermonters who served in the American Revolutionary War. The passage between the townships is very narrow. When you're in South Hero, make a trip to the local winery, Snow Farm Vineyard. A 1937 travel manual, Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State, captures something of South Hero's striking beauty:
"The view over sparkling Champlain water to the carved grandeur of the Adirondacks is an awe-inspiring one. Wall on wall the mountain barriers are massed high against the western skyline, shutting in the gleaming stretch of the inland sea that Champlain discovered for the Old World, but which long before that time knew that glide of birch canoes and the thrust of Indian paddles....", .
