Located a 1/2 mile off the shoreline in Lake Champlain, the 945 acre Valcour Island is home to 26 designated campsites along the shoreline and several hiking trails. Parts of the island are quite rocky, with certain points more then 90 feet above the lake.
For more about Valcour Island, see the DEC website: https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/32055.html
Valcour Island is a 968-acre island in Lake Champlain in Clinton County, NY. The island is mostly in the Town of Peru and partly in the Town of Plattsburgh, southeast of the City of Plattsburgh. It is within the boundaries of the Adirondack Park. On October 11, 1776, a naval engagement known as the Battle of Valcour Island between British and United States naval forces under Benedict Arnold was fought in the strait adjacent to the island. Valcour was the site of several farms and summer homes (and one short-lived utopian community, the Dawn Valcour Society) from the nineteenth century until the 1970s, when New York State completed its purchase of the island. The island is now within the Adirondack Park, and is managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation as the “Valcour Island Primitive Area“.
| Campsite | Latitude | Longitude |
| Campsite 1 | 44.612046881793 | -73.42286639561 |
| Campsite 2 | 44.615222332331 | -73.423275059535 |
| Campsite 3 | 44.6253469112994 | -73.4281564842123 |
| Campsite 4 | 44.6173858889161 | -73.4252711688757 |
| Campsite 5 | 44.6177506875454 | -73.4247159815721 |
| Campsite 6 | 44.6356309436663 | -73.4176270547275 |
| Campsite 7 | 44.6361822556452 | -73.4162718794829 |
| Campsite 8 | 44.6357410636748 | -73.4156981847151 |
| Campsite 9 | 44.635776223568 | -73.414744449708 |
| Campsite 10 | 44.6340432204798 | -73.411717194633 |
| Campsite 11 | 44.6339079469408 | -73.4119822301329 |
| Campsite 12 | 44.6332129588725 | -73.4120886545713 |
| Campsite 13 | 44.6252304809332 | -73.4060010457772 |
| Campsite 14 | 44.6250339125795 | -73.4054067272836 |
| Campsite 15 | 44.6193516413756 | -73.4079994284824 |
| Campsite 16 | 44.619865406031 | -73.4083543141594 |
| Campsite 17 | 44.6183002950397 | -73.4093395585105 |
| Campsite 18 | 44.6114734031153 | -73.409943357957 |
| Campsite 19 | 44.6213442634347 | -73.4052848744629 |
| Campsite 20 | 44.6212210367482 | -73.4056926555458 |
| Campsite 21 | 44.632697323584 | -73.4235976390277 |
| Campsite 22 | 44.6325578049828 | -73.424838344847 |
| Campsite 23 | 44.6253571111095 | -73.4281594618369 |
| Campsite 25 | 44.6210306272869 | -73.4308219163776 |
| Campsite 26 | 44.6211390582903 | -73.428074914075 |
More information on the DEC’s Lake Champlain Island Complex webpage.
It was a pleasant day walking along Bradt Hollow Road. I saw a couple of phesants in the bush, along the way.
Taken on Sunday October 4, 2020 at Valcour Island.