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Kill Kare State Park, St. Albans, VT
Sports & Outdoors

Kill Kare State Park

A lakeside state park on a peninsula in Lake Champlain, known for swimming, boating, and a restored 1870s hotel building.

2714 Hathaway Point Rd, St. Albans, VT 05481 · St. Albans, VT

About Kill Kare State Park

Kill Kare State Park occupies the southwestern tip of St. Albans Point, surrounded on three sides by Lake Champlain. Its centerpiece is Rocky Point House, a three-story building first erected in the 1870s as a summer hotel. Earlier, the site hosted a boys' summer camp from 1912 to 1966. The state bought the land in 1967 to serve as a mainland base for Burton Island State Park, which can only be reached by boat. Today visitors swim from a south-facing beach, launch or rent boats, fish the lake, and picnic under the trees. A passenger ferry links the park with Burton Island during the summer season. The restored house now operates as a museum that explains the site's hotel, camp, and park history.

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