Green River Reservoir State Park (Vermont)

Green River Reservoir State Park is a 2227 hectare (5,503 acre) state park in Hyde Park, Vermont, on the shore of 653-acre Green River Reservoir.

Green River Reservoir State Park

Type	State park
Location	1393 Green River Dam Rd. Hyde Park, Vermont
Coordinates	44.6218°N 72.5268°W / 44.6218; -72.5268
Area	2227 hectares (5503 acres)
Operated by	Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation
Open	Memorial Day weekend - Labor Day weekend
Website	http://www.vtstateparks.com/grriver.html

Activities includes camping, swimming, boating, fishing, picnicking, mountain biking, wildlife watching, and winter sports.[1]

Day use is allowed in limited capacity. Only boats powered by electric motors up to 5 mph and human-powered watercraft are allowed.[2]

The park features 28 remote campsites around the Reservoir, which can be reached only by boat.

The park is undeveloped, with only low-impact recreational use allowed on and around the Reservoir. Parking is very limited.

References

"Green River Reservoir State Park". Oh Ranger. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
"Green River Reservoir State Park". Vermont State Parks. Retrieved 24 July 2016.

External links

Official web site

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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