- The Herb Closet is a licensed Vermont adult-use dispensary at 196 Pearl Street, Burlington, VT 05401, in downtown Burlington near the north end of the Church Street Marketplace.
- Float On is a licensed Vermont adult-use retailer at 136½ Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401, right on the pedestrian Church Street Marketplace.
- The two are only a few blocks apart — a short, flat walk of roughly five minutes through downtown — so it's easy to see both on one trip.
- Both are licensed by the Vermont Cannabis Control Board. This is a neighborhood guide, not a ranking — the choice is just which door you walk through.
- Everything here is 21+. Public consumption isn't permitted anywhere in Vermont, so whatever you buy is for private use only.
If you're comparing dispensaries in downtown Burlington, two names that come up close together are The Herb Closet and Float On. They sit a few blocks apart in the heart of downtown, and both are licensed Vermont adult-use retailers. This is the short, factual version: where each one is, how to reach the door, what each shop offers, and the Vermont rules that apply the same way at either counter. It's a neighborhood guide, not a ranking.
Where is each shop?
Both are downtown, within an easy walk of each other:
- The Herb Closet — 196 Pearl Street, Burlington, VT 05401, in downtown Burlington near the top (north end) of the Church Street Marketplace.
- Float On — 136½ Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401, directly on the Church Street Marketplace, the brick-paved pedestrian stretch through the middle of downtown.
Because they're both in the downtown core, you can see both in a single outing. Pearl Street runs east–west across the top of the Marketplace, and Church Street runs north–south through it, so the two addresses are only a few blocks apart.
How do you get to each one?
Downtown Burlington is compact and walkable, a short distance from both the waterfront and the University of Vermont hill. A few ways in that work for either shop:
- On foot: From the Burlington waterfront it's a gentle uphill walk of a few blocks east; from the UVM campus it's a walk downhill toward the lake. The Marketplace itself is flat and fully pedestrian.
- Parking: There's metered street parking on the cross streets, plus the Marketplace and College Street parking garages a short stroll away, and bike parking around the Marketplace.
- Transit: Green Mountain Transit (GMT) buses serve downtown Burlington with stops near the Marketplace, so you can arrive without a car.
Once you're downtown, walking between the two is easy: roughly five minutes on flat sidewalks, no hills in between.
What does The Herb Closet offer?
The Herb Closet is a licensed Vermont adult-use dispensary on Pearl Street, and it's known as Burlington's first Black-owned dispensary. It carries the standard licensed categories you'd expect — flower, pre-rolls, concentrates, vapes, and edibles — and you can shop in-store or order online through their own site. Like every adult-use shop in the state, its products move through Vermont's regulated, lab-tested supply chain. For current selection and exact daily hours, their own website and listings are the best source.
What does Float On offer?
Float On is a licensed Vermont adult-use retailer at street level on the Church Street Marketplace. Here's what's factually true about it:
- Order-ahead or walk in: You can build an order on the live menu and pick it up under your name, or just walk in and browse with a budtender.
- Open seven days a week, and open late — 'til midnight on Fridays and Saturdays — which helps if you're already out downtown in the evening.
- Vermont craft focus: The shelf leans on the state's small growers and makers, with everything moving through the same regulated, lab-tested supply chain.
- Right on the Marketplace: Street-level on the pedestrian block, so you walk in straight from the Marketplace.
How do the two compare at a glance?
The honest summary: two licensed downtown shops, a few blocks apart. The Herb Closet is on Pearl Street near the top of the Marketplace; Float On is on the Marketplace itself at 136½ Church Street, open seven days and late on weekends, with an order-ahead menu. Both run everything through Vermont's testing and tracking system, so what's on the label is what's in the package at either store.
What should you know before you shop, at either store?
A few Vermont rules apply the same way at every licensed adult-use shop downtown:
- It's 21+. Bring a valid government-issued photo ID; you'll show it at the door. No medical card is needed for adult-use.
- No public consumption. Vermont doesn't permit using cannabis in public — not on Church Street, Pearl 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 a licensed store — The Herb Closet, Float On, or any other downtown — means what's on the label went through Vermont's testing and tracking. If you're new to any of it, our plain-English guides walk through the basics, or you can browse Float On's live menu before you head downtown.