Knight Point State Park

Knight Point State Park is a day use state park off US Route 2 on North Hero Island in North Hero, Vermont.[1] Opened in 1978, the park is administered by the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation, as part of the Vermont State Park system.[2] Features include a sandy swimming beach and boat rentals on Lake Champlain, and picnic areas with cooking grills.[3]

Knight Point State Park
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Type	State park
Location	1 Knight Island North Hero, Vermont, USA
Coordinates	44.7714°N 73.2942°W / 44.7714; -73.2942
Area	54 acres
Created	1978 (1978)
Operated by	Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation
Open	Summer season
Website	https://vtstateparks.com/knightpoint.html

The park houses the Island Center for Arts and Recreation, a community-based nonprofit that promotes area cultural events.[4][5]

The Campmeeting Point Natural Area is a 3-acre section of the park. It includes 2,200 feet of Lake Champlain shoreline of least disturbed cobble beach that supports rare plant species, and the adjacent woodland with a grove of large oaks and hickory trees.[6]

References

"Knight Point State Park". Trail Finder. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
"Knight Point State Park". Oh Ranger. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
"Knight Point State Park". Vermont State Parks. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
"Islands Center for Arts and Recreation". Lake Champlain Islands Economic Development Corporation. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
"Knight Point State Park". Lake Champlain Land Trust. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
"Vermont Natural Areas". Vermont State Lands Administration. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.

External links

Official website

Protected areas of Vermont

Federal

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

State

State Parks	Alburg 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 Mt. Ascutney Mt. 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) Mt. Mansfield Peacham Bog Shrewsbury Peak Spectacle Pond Tabletop Mountain Terrible Mountain Tinker Brook Weybridge Cave Willoughby Cliffs Worcester Range

Private

Babcock Nature Preserve
Eshqua Bog
Achilles Natural Area
Buckner Memorial Natural Area
Hogback Mountain Conservation Area
Mountain Meadow Preserve
Shaw Mountain Natural Area
Williams Woods Natural Area

Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation

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