Kamp Kill Kare State Park

Kill Kare State Park, is a state park in northwest Vermont on St. Albans Point on Lake Champlain. The day-use park is administered by the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation, as part of the Vermont State Park system.

Kill Kare State Park

Type	State park
Location	2714 Hathaway Point Road St. Albans, Vermont, USA
Coordinates	44.7791°N 73.183°W / 44.7791; -73.183
Area	17 acres
Created	1967 (1967)
Operated by	Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation
Open	Summer season
Website	https://vtstateparks.com/killkare.html

Facilities include a swimming area, boat launch, kayak rentals, picnic tables and grills.[1] The Rocky Point House Museum, dedicated in August 2012, features displays about the site's history from its days as a summer resort hotel to its use as a boys summer camp from 1906 to 1966.[2][3] There is a 26’ x 40’ open-air shelter with a group-sized cooking grill and electricity, which can be reserved for group functions.

The Island Runner ferry departs from the dock to nearby Burton Island State Park seven times daily.

The State of Vermont bought the property in 1967 as a base to service Burton Island State Park.[4]

References

"Kill Care State Park". Vermont State Parks. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
"ST ALBANS 2 St. Albans // a Hidden Gem on the Lake". Destination Vermont. March 5, 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
"Louis L. McAllister Photographs: Kill Kare". University of Vermont Digital Libraries. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
"Kill Kare State Park". Lake Champlain Land Trust. Retrieved 21 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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