Lake Champlain ferry Charlotte to Essex
— — twenty minutes of open water and a different state on the far shore.
Not only on a wall.
“The Charlotte–Essex ferry crosses one of the narrower stretches of Lake Champlain, running between a small landing south of Burlington and the village of Essex, New York, on the Adirondack shore. The crossing takes about twenty minutes. Cars roll on, passengers walk up to the open deck, and the Adirondack High Peaks rise across the water as the boat clears the slip. The Lake Champlain Transportation Company has run a boat on this line since the nineteenth century. — from the studio
Lake Champlain ferry Charlotte to Essex, on ceramic.
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The Charlotte–Essex ferry connects Charlotte, Vermont, on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, with the village of Essex, New York, on the lake's Adirondack side. The crossing is roughly 1.5 miles wide at this point and the boat makes the run in about twenty minutes. The route is operated by the Lake Champlain Transportation Company, which has run scheduled service on the lake since 1826 and is one of the oldest continuously operating ferry companies in the United States. The Charlotte and Essex landings sit south of the longer Burlington–Port Kaplan crossing.
Lake Champlain stretches roughly 120 miles north to south and reaches depths of about 400 feet in the broad lake to the north. At the Charlotte–Essex narrows the lake is shallower and more sheltered, which is why the crossing has anchored a ferry route since the early 1800s. The water reads slate-blue in summer and lead-grey under autumn weather, with the long view broken only by Split Rock Point and the Four Brothers Islands. The lake usually does not freeze across at this latitude in modern winters.
The Charlotte–Essex ferry runs year-round in most years and is the shortest scheduled crossing on Lake Champlain. Service is generally suspended for a few weeks of mid-winter ice. Vehicles, cyclists, and walk-on passengers all board at the Charlotte landing on Ferry Road, off Route 7 south of Burlington. The Essex landing puts passengers a short walk from the historic village of Essex, New York, a designated National Historic Landmark district. Schedules and fares are published by the Lake Champlain Transportation Company.