Barnet Vermont is located on I-91, south of St Johnsbury, Caledonia County, in the beautiful and scenic "Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont, an area that National Geographic selected as part of their geotourism program for sustainable destinations. Barnet contains the locations of Barnet Center, East Barnet, McIndoe Falls, Mosquitoville, Passumpsic and West Barnet.

Some notable people from Barnet include: professional basketball player Taylor Coppenrath, filmmaker & Marlboro College film professor Jay Craven, mechanical engineer industrialist and politician Ralph Flanders, statesman & judge Henry Clay Ide, and bibliographers Benjamin Franklin Stevens & Henry Stevens.