Burton Island State Park

Burton Island State Park
Type	state park
Location	St. Albans Bay, Vermont, USA
Coordinates	44°46′24″N 73°12′18″W / 44.77333°N 73.20500°W / 44.77333; -73.20500Coordinates: 44°46′24″N 73°12′18″W / 44.77333°N 73.20500°W / 44.77333; -73.20500
Area	253 acres (1 km²)
Operated by	Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation
Open	May 26 to September 5

Burton Island State Park is a state park in northwest Vermont, USA. The park comprises Burton Island, an island of 253 acres (1 km²) and located off St. Albans Point in Lake Champlain, close to the International Boundary with Canada. The park is administered by the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation, as part of the Vermont State Park system. Facilities include a nature center/museum that offers nature education programs.^[1]

Burton Island State Park is nearby other islands of Lake Champlain that are state parks, including Kill Kare State Park, Woods Island State Park, and Knight Island State Park. Knight Point State Park is on the nearby coast. Ball Island, a smaller island in the area, is privately owned.

References

↑ http://www.vtstateparks.com/htm/TopFiveNatureProgram.cfm Top Five Nature Programs

External links

Protected areas of Vermont

Federal	Appalachian Trail Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge Green Mountain National Forest Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge White Rocks National Recreation Area

State Parks	Alburg Dunes Allis Ascutney Big Deer Bomoseen Boulder Beach Branbury Brighton Burton Island Button Bay Camel's Hump Camp Plymouth Cheney House Coolidge Crystal Lake D.A.R. Elmore Emerald Lake Fort Dummer Gifford Woods Grand Isle Green River Reservoir Half Moon Jamaica Kettle Pond Kill Kare Kingsland Bay Knight Island Knight Point Lake Carmi Lake Shaftsbury Lake St. Catherine Litte River Lowell Lake Maidstone Molly Stark Mount Philo New Discovery North Hero Quechee Ricker Pond Sand Bar Seyon Lodge Silver Lake Smugglers' Notch Stillwater Stone Hut Thetford Hill Townshend Underhill Waterbury Center Wilgus Woodford Woods Island

State Forests	Aitkin Albert C. Lord Arlington Calvin Coolidge Cambridge Camels Hump Charles Downer Darling Emerald Lake State Forest Grafton Groton Hapgood Hazens Notch Jay John J. Dorano Jones Mathewson Molly Stark Morristown Mount Carmel Mount Mansfield Okemo Proctor-Piper Putnam Roxbury Rupert Thetford Hill Townshend Victory Washington West Rutland William C. Putnam Williams River Willoughby

Private	Babcock Nature Preserve

Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation

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