Champlain Valley Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
region of the United States around Lake Champlain in Vermont and New York extending north slightly into Quebec, Canada
About Champlain Valley
This region borders Lake Champlain which is a large, fresh water lake stretching over 100 miles in length and nearly 12 miles wide at its broadest point. Named for French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, it dividesNew YorkState andVermont, and stretches north across the Canadian border intoQuebecprovince. After the Great Lakes, Lake Champlain is the next largest fresh water lake in theUnited States. Flowing south to north, the lake is connected to the Richelieu River in the north (flows into the St. Lawrence River nearMontreal), and to the south Lake Champlain connects to the Champlain Canal, and by extension the Hudson River. Lake Champlain is therefore connected to the Atlantic Ocean indirectly at both extremities. Exceeding 400 feet deep at its most profound, the lake nevertheless freezes
Champlain Valley Travel Guide Sections
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