Lake Champlain Islands Grand Isle
— — a Vermont county that is mostly water.
Not only on a wall.
“Grand Isle is the largest of the islands that make up Grand Isle County in the north end of Lake Champlain. U.S. Route 2 runs the length of the chain, a single road over short causeways linking South Hero, Grand Isle, North Hero, Alburgh, and the Isle La Motte spur. The land is low and farmed, the lake is on both sides of the road for most of the drive, and the Adirondack High Peaks ride the western horizon. Most of the county's population works the land or the lake. — from the studio
Lake Champlain Islands Grand Isle, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Grand Isle is the largest of the islands of Grand Isle County, a chain in the northern end of Lake Champlain that includes South Hero, Grand Isle, North Hero, Isle La Motte, and the Alburgh peninsula. The county is roughly 195 square miles in total, of which more than half is water — the highest water-to-land ratio of any county in Vermont. U.S. Route 2 runs the spine of the chain from the Vermont mainland at Sand Bar State Park north into Alburgh and on toward the Canadian border, linking the islands by a series of short causeways.
Lake Champlain wraps the islands on every side: the broader Broad Lake to the west, the Inland Sea between the islands and the Vermont mainland to the east. Water depths reach about 400 feet in the Broad Lake north of the Islands. In winter the Inland Sea freezes hard enough to support bob houses and pickup trucks; ice fishing for perch, smelt, and lake trout is part of the local year. In summer the same water carries sailing fleets out of Mallets Bay and Malletts Head.
Grand Isle is reached by car from Burlington in about thirty minutes north on U.S. Route 2, crossing the Sand Bar causeway. Grand Isle State Park sits on the eastern shore and runs a campground with lake access. Knight Point State Park and Sand Bar State Park give day-use swimming and picnicking. The Hero's Welcome general store in North Hero has anchored the chain since 1897. Foliage on the Islands runs roughly the first two weeks of October, a little later than the higher Green Mountain ridges.