It heads northwest on Northside Drive for roughly six blocks, then turns north to follow the Ethan Allen Highway at the southern terminus of VT 67A.

The two routes eventually reconnect by way of the Bennington North State Highway before US 7 veers off to the northeast.

Just inside Shaftsbury, VT 7A passes by the Robert Frost Stone House Museum.

The route continues north to the village of South Shaftsbury, where it meets VT 67.

Here, the route travels past the Norman Rockwell Gallery and Exhibition and overlaps with VT 313.