Sand Bar State Park

44°37′38″N 73°14′23″W / 44.62709°N 73.23985°W / 44.62709; -73.23985Area15 acres (6.1 ha)Created1933 (1933)Operated byVermont Department of Forests, Parks, and RecreationStatusOpen Memorial Day weekend - Labor Day weekendWebsitehttps://vtstateparks.com/sandbar.html

Sand Bar State Park is a 15-acre (6.1 ha) state park in Milton, Vermont on the shore of Lake Champlain.^[1] The park was established in 1933.

Setting

The park is located on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, north of Vermont's largest city, Burlington. It is located along United States Route Route 2 on the eastern end of a natural sandbar that spans the lake between the town of Milton in Chittenden County on the Vermont mainland and South Hero Island in Grand Isle County. Most of the sandbar is now topped by a causeway carrying US 2. The park occupies a roughly triangular parcel of land, bounded on the east by the 1,560-acre (630 ha) Sand Bar Wildlife Management Area, also operated by the state.^[2] Sand Bar Park Road extends north from US 2, providing access to the park's facilities.

Facilities

Park facilities include a 2,000-foot (610 m) sand beach, canoe and kayak rentals, a food concession, picnic tables with cooking grills, volleyball courts, horseshoes, and swings.^[1] The most prominent built feature of the park is a large stone bathhouse. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1933–35.^[3]

Activities includes swimming, boating, fishing, hiking, picnicking, wildlife watching, water sports and winter sports.^[4]

History

The park was Vermont's sixth state park and the first to be created on land purchased by the state. The land was developed in 1933 under the provisions of a 1929 state law authorizing such purchases. At first, it was primarily swampy marshland, which crews of the CCC cleared, filled, and graded. In addition to the bathhouse, the CCC also built a stone grill which still stands in the park. The upper level of the bathhouse was originally used as living quarters for caretakers and lifeguards but is now used for storage, while the rest of the structure, only modified to provide electricity and plumbing, continues in its original use. A reduced area of the park (about 4.5 acres (1.8 ha)) of the park surrounding the bathhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 for its CCC-related elements.^[3]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Chittenden County, Vermont

References

External links

Federal

National Historical Park	Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
National Wildlife Refuges	Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
National Forest	Green Mountain National Forest
National Wilderness Areas	Big Branch Wilderness Breadloaf Wilderness Bristol Cliffs Wilderness George D. Aiken Wilderness Glastenbury Wilderness Joseph Battell Wilderness Lye Brook Wilderness Peru Peak Wilderness
National Recreation Areas	Moosalamoo National Recreation Area Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area
National Trails	Appalachian Trail North Country Trail
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Missisquoi River Trout River

State

State Parks	Alburgh Dunes Allis Big Deer Bomoseen Boulder Beach Branbury Brighton Burton Island Button Bay Camel's Hump Camp Plymouth Coolidge Crystal Lake D.A.R. D & H Rail Trail Elmore Emerald Lake Fort Dummer Gifford Woods Grand Isle Green River Reservoir Half Moon Pond Hazen's Notch Jamaica Kamp Kill Kare Kettle Pond Kingsland Bay Knight Island Knight Point Lake Carmi Lake Shaftsbury Lake St. Catherine Litte River Lowell Lake Maidstone Molly Stark Molly's Falls Pond Mount Ascutney Mount Philo Muckross New Discovery Niquette Bay North Hero Quechee Ricker Pond Sand Bar Sentinel Rock Seyon Lodge Silver Lake Smugglers' Notch Stillwater Sweet Pond Taconic Mountains Ramble Thetford Hill Townshend Underhill Waterbury Center Wilgus Woodford Woods Island
State Forests	Aitken Arlington Black Turn Brook Boyer Calvin Coolidge Cambridge Camel's Hump Dorand Downer Granville Gulf Reservation Groton Hapgood Jay Jim Jeffords Jones Long Trail Lord Lower Clarendon Gorge Lyndon Mathewson Mollie Beattie Mount Carmel Mount Cushman Mount Mansfield Okemo Proctor-Piper Putnam Roxbury Rupert Thetford Hill Townshend Victory Washington West Rutland William C. Putnam Williams River Willoughby
Natural Areas	Amity Pond Big Falls of the Missisquoi Button Point Cambridge Camel's Hump Campmeeting Point Cascade Falls Daniel's Notch Emerald Lake Fisher-Scott Memorial Pines Gifford Woods Granville Gulf Hamilton Falls Hazen's Notch Highgate Cliffs Kingsland Bay Lake Carmi Bog Lords Hill Lucy Mallary Bugbee Marl Pond and Swamp Mendon Peak Morristown Bog Moss Glen Falls (Granville) Moss Glen Falls (Stowe) Mount Mansfield Peacham Bog Shrewsbury Peak Spectacle Pond Tabletop Mountain Terrible Mountain Tinker Brook Weybridge Cave Willoughby Cliffs Worcester Range

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