Battery Park Burlington with the lake
— — the bench the sunset belongs to.
Not only on a wall.
“A green bluff above Lake Champlain, four acres of grass and old hardwoods at the north end of downtown Burlington. The cannons by the fence are real; they fired on British gunboats here in 1813. The Adirondacks sit across the water, dark by six and lit by seven. Locals come for the sunset, the band shell, and the path down to the waterfront.
Battery Park Burlington with the lake, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Battery Park sits on a bluff at the north end of Burlington's downtown, about a hundred feet above Lake Champlain. The four-acre green takes its name from an American artillery battery placed here during the War of 1812. On August 2, 1813, the battery exchanged fire with British gunboats that came up the lake from Plattsburgh. Two of the original cannons remain along the west fence. The park is bounded by North Avenue and Pearl Street, with a stairway and a steeper path down to the waterfront and the Burlington Bike Path below.
The park faces directly west across Lake Champlain, with the Adirondack High Peaks rising on the New York shore about thirty miles off. In summer the sun sets behind Whiteface and Giant, and the lake holds the colour for a long time after. The park's older sugar maples and oaks frame the view from inside the green. In winter the lake freezes in patches and the sunsets shorten and harden. The band shell on the south side hosts free concerts most Thursdays in July and August.
Battery Park is a few minutes' walk from Church Street Marketplace in central Burlington. Street parking surrounds the green on Battery Street and Pearl. No admission, open in all seasons, no closing hour. The path down to the waterfront and the bike path is paved and lit; the steeper stair route is faster but rougher. The Discover Jazz Festival uses the band shell in early June, and the Burlington Fourth of July fireworks launch from the breakwater directly below the bluff.