Sand Bar State Park, 1215 US Route 2, Milton, Vermont USA • The park was named for the natural sandbar between South Hero Island and the Vermont mainland. The park is on the mainland, or eastern end, of that sandbar. The sandbar is the result of the Lamoille River, over thousands of years, washing sediment downstream from the present Lamoille Valley. The river borne material sank to the bottom as the river emptied into Lake Champlain, eventually filling the lake to create the marshland south and east of the park, and the sandbar to the west.
Natural lake depths here, without the sandbar, would be over 150 feet. As it is, water depth now along the top of the sandbar to South Hero is only a couple of feet. Because of the shallow water, the route along the sandbar served as a ford from the mainland to the islands well before construction of the first bridge in 1850. Crossing that first toll bridge, which was built of rock, gravel, and logs laid corduroy-fashion through the marsh and along the bar, must have been an adventure. Narrow and much lower than today's causeway, it was often flooded and always needed major repairs after damage caused by shifting ice each spring. Even crossing the present wider, higher causeway, completed in 1959, can be an adventure when snow blowing across the frozen lake blocks visibility, or spray and water from crashing waves washes across the highway during storms when the lake is high. …
Sand Bar State Park began in 1933 and was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, a nationwide public works program created during the great economic depression of the 1930s to provide jobs and training for thousands of unemployed. Many of the parks in this country, both state and national, trace their origins to the CCC era. Sand Bar's stone bathhouse was a CCC project completed in 1935. The original 10-acre park included a small campground on the south side of the highway. As U.S. 2 became a busier and faster road, camping that close to it, and crossing back and forth, was neither desirable nor particularly safe. In 1970, a land swap gave the former campground, now a fishing access area, to the Fish and Wildlife Department and brought the park to its present 15-acre size. The usable length of the beach was doubled and the picnic area, newer bathhouse, and long parking lot were built as the park expanded east onto land acquired from the refuge.
Today at Sand Bar, the smooth, sandy lake bottom remains shallow well out from shore, making this an ideal swimming spot for children. That, and the uninterrupted length of sandy beach, very high quality water in this section of the lake, and well-kept facilities in an attractive setting combine to make Sand Bar the most visited day park in the state. – per the Vermont State Parks.
☞ Sand Bar State Park has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (District #02000028), since 2002.
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Sand Bar State Park, 1215 US Route 2, Milton, Vermont USA • The park was named for the natural sandbar between South Hero Island and the Vermont mainland. The park is on the mainland, or eastern end, of that sandbar. The sandbar is the result of the Lamoille River, over thousands of years, washing sediment downstream from the present Lamoille Valley. The river borne material sank to the bottom as the river emptied into Lake Champlain, eventually filling the lake to create the marshland south and east of the park, and the sandbar to the west.
Natural lake depths here, without the sandbar, would be over 150 feet. As it is, water depth now along the top of the sandbar to South Hero is only a couple of feet. Because of the shallow water, the route along the sandbar served as a ford from the mainland to the islands well before construction of the first bridge in 1850. Crossing that first toll bridge, which was built of rock, gravel, and logs laid corduroy-fashion through the marsh and along the bar, must have been an adventure. Narrow and much lower than today's causeway, it was often flooded and always needed major repairs after damage caused by shifting ice each spring. Even crossing the present wider, higher causeway, completed in 1959, can be an adventure when snow blowing across the frozen lake blocks visibility, or spray and water from crashing waves washes across the highway during storms when the lake is high. …
Sand Bar State Park began in 1933 and was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, a nationwide public works program created during the great economic depression of the 1930s to provide jobs and training for thousands of unemployed. Many of the parks in this country, both state and national, trace their origins to the CCC era. Sand Bar's stone bathhouse was a CCC project completed in 1935. The original 10-acre park included a small campground on the south side of the highway. As U.S. 2 became a busier and faster road, camping that close to it, and crossing back and forth, was neither desirable nor particularly safe. In 1970, a land swap gave the former campground, now a fishing access area, to the Fish and Wildlife Department and brought the park to its present 15-acre size. The usable length of the beach was doubled and the picnic area, newer bathhouse, and long parking lot were built as the park expanded east onto land acquired from the refuge.
Today at Sand Bar, the smooth, sandy lake bottom remains shallow well out from shore, making this an ideal swimming spot for children. That, and the uninterrupted length of sandy beach, very high quality water in this section of the lake, and well-kept facilities in an attractive setting combine to make Sand Bar the most visited day park in the state. – per the Vermont State Parks.
☞ Sand Bar State Park has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (District #02000028), since 2002.
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Sand Bar State Park, 1215 US Route 2, Milton, Vermont USA • The park was named for the natural sandbar between South Hero Island and the Vermont mainland. The park is on the mainland, or eastern end, of that sandbar. The sandbar is the result of the Lamoille River, over thousands of years, washing sediment downstream from the present Lamoille Valley. The river borne material sank to the bottom as the river emptied into Lake Champlain, eventually filling the lake to create the marshland south and east of the park, and the sandbar to the west.
Natural lake depths here, without the sandbar, would be over 150 feet. As it is, water depth now along the top of the sandbar to South Hero is only a couple of feet. Because of the shallow water, the route along the sandbar served as a ford from the mainland to the islands well before construction of the first bridge in 1850. Crossing that first toll bridge, which was built of rock, gravel, and logs laid corduroy-fashion through the marsh and along the bar, must have been an adventure. Narrow and much lower than today's causeway, it was often flooded and always needed major repairs after damage caused by shifting ice each spring. Even crossing the present wider, higher causeway, completed in 1959, can be an adventure when snow blowing across the frozen lake blocks visibility, or spray and water from crashing waves washes across the highway during storms when the lake is high. …
Sand Bar State Park began in 1933 and was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, a nationwide public works program created during the great economic depression of the 1930s to provide jobs and training for thousands of unemployed. Many of the parks in this country, both state and national, trace their origins to the CCC era. Sand Bar's stone bathhouse was a CCC project completed in 1935. The original 10-acre park included a small campground on the south side of the highway. As U.S. 2 became a busier and faster road, camping that close to it, and crossing back and forth, was neither desirable nor particularly safe. In 1970, a land swap gave the former campground, now a fishing access area, to the Fish and Wildlife Department and brought the park to its present 15-acre size. The usable length of the beach was doubled and the picnic area, newer bathhouse, and long parking lot were built as the park expanded east onto land acquired from the refuge.
Today at Sand Bar, the smooth, sandy lake bottom remains shallow well out from shore, making this an ideal swimming spot for children. That, and the uninterrupted length of sandy beach, very high quality water in this section of the lake, and well-kept facilities in an attractive setting combine to make Sand Bar the most visited day park in the state. – per the Vermont State Parks.
☞ Sand Bar State Park has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (District #02000028), since 2002.
Tags: CCC logo signage stone bath house 1935 Civilian Conservation Corps CCC Perry H Merrill State Forester campground beach recreation architecture fieldstone cutstone stone morter mortered Sand Bar State Park 1215 US Route 2 Milton, Vermont USA Milton Vermont VT USA Chittenden County 05468 National Register of Historic Places 02000028 nrhp 2002 Don Shall origamidon newdeal
Sand Bar State Park, 1215 US Route 2, Milton, Vermont USA • The park was named for the natural sandbar between South Hero Island and the Vermont mainland. The park is on the mainland, or eastern end, of that sandbar. The sandbar is the result of the Lamoille River, over thousands of years, washing sediment downstream from the present Lamoille Valley. The river borne material sank to the bottom as the river emptied into Lake Champlain, eventually filling the lake to create the marshland south and east of the park, and the sandbar to the west.
Natural lake depths here, without the sandbar, would be over 150 feet. As it is, water depth now along the top of the sandbar to South Hero is only a couple of feet. Because of the shallow water, the route along the sandbar served as a ford from the mainland to the islands well before construction of the first bridge in 1850. Crossing that first toll bridge, which was built of rock, gravel, and logs laid corduroy-fashion through the marsh and along the bar, must have been an adventure. Narrow and much lower than today's causeway, it was often flooded and always needed major repairs after damage caused by shifting ice each spring. Even crossing the present wider, higher causeway, completed in 1959, can be an adventure when snow blowing across the frozen lake blocks visibility, or spray and water from crashing waves washes across the highway during storms when the lake is high. …
Sand Bar State Park began in 1933 and was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, a nationwide public works program created during the great economic depression of the 1930s to provide jobs and training for thousands of unemployed. Many of the parks in this country, both state and national, trace their origins to the CCC era. Sand Bar's stone bathhouse was a CCC project completed in 1935. The original 10-acre park included a small campground on the south side of the highway. As U.S. 2 became a busier and faster road, camping that close to it, and crossing back and forth, was neither desirable nor particularly safe. In 1970, a land swap gave the former campground, now a fishing access area, to the Fish and Wildlife Department and brought the park to its present 15-acre size. The usable length of the beach was doubled and the picnic area, newer bathhouse, and long parking lot were built as the park expanded east onto land acquired from the refuge.
Today at Sand Bar, the smooth, sandy lake bottom remains shallow well out from shore, making this an ideal swimming spot for children. That, and the uninterrupted length of sandy beach, very high quality water in this section of the lake, and well-kept facilities in an attractive setting combine to make Sand Bar the most visited day park in the state. – per the Vermont State Parks.
☞ Sand Bar State Park has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (District #02000028), since 2002.
Tags: stone bath house 1935 Civilian Conservation Corps CCC Perry H Merrill State Forester campground beach recreation architecture fieldstone cutstone stone morter mortered Sand Bar State Park 1215 US Route 2 Milton, Vermont USA Milton Vermont VT USA Chittenden County 05468 National Register of Historic Places 02000028 nrhp 2002 Don Shall origamidon newdeal
Sand Bar State Park, 1215 US Route 2, Milton, Vermont USA • The park was named for the natural sandbar between South Hero Island and the Vermont mainland. The park is on the mainland, or eastern end, of that sandbar. The sandbar is the result of the Lamoille River, over thousands of years, washing sediment downstream from the present Lamoille Valley. The river borne material sank to the bottom as the river emptied into Lake Champlain, eventually filling the lake to create the marshland south and east of the park, and the sandbar to the west.
Natural lake depths here, without the sandbar, would be over 150 feet. As it is, water depth now along the top of the sandbar to South Hero is only a couple of feet. Because of the shallow water, the route along the sandbar served as a ford from the mainland to the islands well before construction of the first bridge in 1850. Crossing that first toll bridge, which was built of rock, gravel, and logs laid corduroy-fashion through the marsh and along the bar, must have been an adventure. Narrow and much lower than today's causeway, it was often flooded and always needed major repairs after damage caused by shifting ice each spring. Even crossing the present wider, higher causeway, completed in 1959, can be an adventure when snow blowing across the frozen lake blocks visibility, or spray and water from crashing waves washes across the highway during storms when the lake is high. …
Sand Bar State Park began in 1933 and was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, a nationwide public works program created during the great economic depression of the 1930s to provide jobs and training for thousands of unemployed. Many of the parks in this country, both state and national, trace their origins to the CCC era. Sand Bar's stone bathhouse was a CCC project completed in 1935. The original 10-acre park included a small campground on the south side of the highway. As U.S. 2 became a busier and faster road, camping that close to it, and crossing back and forth, was neither desirable nor particularly safe. In 1970, a land swap gave the former campground, now a fishing access area, to the Fish and Wildlife Department and brought the park to its present 15-acre size. The usable length of the beach was doubled and the picnic area, newer bathhouse, and long parking lot were built as the park expanded east onto land acquired from the refuge.
Today at Sand Bar, the smooth, sandy lake bottom remains shallow well out from shore, making this an ideal swimming spot for children. That, and the uninterrupted length of sandy beach, very high quality water in this section of the lake, and well-kept facilities in an attractive setting combine to make Sand Bar the most visited day park in the state. – per the Vermont State Parks.
☞ Sand Bar State Park has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (District #02000028), since 2002.
Tags: stone bath house 1935 Civilian Conservation Corps CCC Perry H Merrill State Forester campground beach recreation architecture fieldstone cutstone stone morter mortered Sand Bar State Park 1215 US Route 2 Milton, Vermont USA Milton Vermont VT USA Chittenden County 05468 National Register of Historic Places 02000028 nrhp 2002 Don Shall origamidon newdeal