 <p><code>vagrant destroy</code> does not remove plugins. As per <a href="https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/destroy.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/destroy.html</a>, it "stops the running machine Vagrant is managing and destroys all resources that were created during the machine creation process".</p> <p>You can uninstall plugins with <code>vagrant plugin uninstall &lt;name&gt;</code> (documented at <a href="https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/plugin.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/cli/plugin.html</a>)</p>