- Both are licensed Vermont adult-use retailers a block apart in downtown Burlington. Herbmont is at 191 Bank Street, Burlington, VT 05401; Float On is at 136½ Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401.
- They're about 0.15 miles apart — roughly a three-minute walk — with Herbmont just off the Church Street Marketplace and Float On right on it.
- Float On is open seven days a week, and open late — 'til midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. You can build an order on its live menu and pick it up under your name, or walk in.
- This is a neighborhood comparison, not a ranking. Everything is 21+, and public consumption isn't permitted anywhere in Vermont — whatever you buy is for private use only.
If you're weighing Herbmont against Float On, the useful thing to know first is that they're a block apart in the same downtown. Both are licensed Vermont adult-use retailers in central Burlington — Herbmont just off the Church Street Marketplace on Bank Street, Float On right on the Marketplace itself. This is a straight, factual side-by-side — addresses, how to reach each one, what's confirmed about hours, and how ordering works — not a ranking of one over the other.
Where is each shop?
Both sit in the heart of downtown Burlington, a block apart. The Church Street Marketplace is the four-block, brick-paved pedestrian stretch through the middle of downtown; Bank Street runs one block over.
- Herbmont — 191 Bank Street, Burlington, VT 05401, one block off the Church Street Marketplace. Because it's on a regular downtown street rather than the pedestrian mall, you can approach the door directly; you enter from the corner of Center and Bank Streets. It's a locally owned craft-cannabis shop.
- Float On — 136½ Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401, right on the pedestrian Marketplace, at street level. A licensed Vermont adult-use retailer with a Vermont-craft focus.
How do you get to either door?
Both are in the same walkable core, so the directions largely overlap — the main difference is that Herbmont sits on a drivable street while Float On is on the car-free mall:
- On foot: From the Burlington waterfront it's a gentle uphill walk of a few blocks east to either; from the University of Vermont campus it's a walk downhill toward the lake. Once downtown, the two are a block apart.
- Parking: The Marketplace Garage sits directly across the street from Herbmont's Center-and-Bank entrance, and the same garage plus metered street parking serve Float On a block over. With Float On you'll park nearby and walk onto the pedestrian block.
- Transit: Green Mountain Transit (GMT) buses serve downtown Burlington with stops near the Marketplace, so you can reach either shop without a car.
If you want to see both, it's genuinely a one-trip errand: park at the Marketplace Garage, walk into Herbmont from the Center Street corner, then stroll the block over to Float On on Church Street.
What are the hours?
Hours are the one thing worth checking fresh, because they shift seasonally at any shop. Here's what's confirmed versus what to verify:
- Float On: open seven days a week, and open late — 'til midnight on Fridays and Saturdays — which is handy if you're already out downtown in the evening.
- Herbmont: check its own website or current listings for that day's exact opening and closing times before you go, since posted hours can change.
Can you order ahead, or do you just walk in?
At Float On you can do either. You can build an order on the live menu and pick it up under your name, which is the quicker route if you already know roughly what you want, or you can simply walk in and browse the shelf and ask a budtender. Either way, bring a valid 21+ photo ID — you'll show it at the door.
Both shops carry the standard licensed categories you'd expect — flower, pre-rolls, vapes, concentrates, edibles, and more — with a lean toward Vermont's small craft growers, and everything moving through the state's regulated, lab-tested supply chain. For exactly what's on the shelf at any given moment, each store's own live menu is the place to look. New to any of it? Our plain-English guides walk through the basics before you head downtown.
What's the same at both, because it's Vermont law?
A handful of rules apply identically at every licensed adult-use shop downtown, so they don't separate one store from the other:
- It's 21+. Bring a valid government-issued photo ID. No medical card is needed for adult-use.
- No public consumption. Vermont doesn't permit using cannabis in public — not on Church Street, Bank Street, the waterfront, in a parked car, or anywhere public. It's for private use only.
- It stays in Vermont. Cannabis bought here can't legally cross state lines, even into a neighboring state where it's also legal.
- Tax is built into shelf pricing. Vermont applies a 14% cannabis excise tax plus the 6% sales tax; at a licensed shop that's already reflected in what you pay.
Shopping either licensed store means what's on the label went through Vermont's testing and tracking. The practical difference between them isn't the rules — it's which door you walk to, and small things like Float On's late Friday and Saturday hours and its order-ahead live menu.
So which should you pick?
Honestly, they're close enough that the deciding factor is usually logistics, not any verdict this page could hand you. If you're driving in and want to pull into the garage and walk straight to a door, Herbmont's Center-and-Bank entrance is right across from it. If you're already strolling the Marketplace, want to shop late on a Friday or Saturday, or would rather line up a pickup on a live menu ahead of time, Float On fits that. Both are licensed; the rest is preference and timing. If it's your first visit to any of them, our plain-English guides cover a dispensary trip start to finish.