Rolling through town: Vermont National Guard escorts Santa tonight

Dec. 20, 2022  |  By Waterbury Roundabout 

Soldiers and airmen of the Vermont National Guard will escort Santa Claus across Northwestern Vermont tonight starting in St. Albans and ending in Berlin with a pass through downtown Waterbury right around 7 p.m.

According to a Vermont National Guard bulletin, the convoy will feature military equipment including trucks, a military ambulance, a wrecker and a fork lift. 

It all gets started at 4 p.m. at the Wal-Mart parking lot in St. Albans for staging with the final destination the National Guard Armory in Berlin by 9:10 p.m. This is an annual tradition of the 186th Brigade Support Battalion, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain). 

The convoy will head out at 4:30 p.m. taking U.S. Route 7 to Georgia, continuing through Milton and Winooski where it will then drive Vermont Route 15 to Essex. Then to Vermont Route 2A at the Five Corners into Williston onto U.S. 2 through Richmond, Waterbury, and Montpelier. In the capital, it will take U.S. Route 302 to Vermont Routes 14 and 63 into Berlin. 

See the flyer image. 

The estimated time for it to come through Waterbury on Route 2 -- through the Roundabout and down Main Street -- is 7 p.m.