Windmill Point Light
The Windmill Point Light in Vermont is the northernmost lighthouse on Lake Champlain. Extinguished for seventy years, it was reactivated in 2002 to replace the skeleton tower erected next to it.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Vermont, United States
- Also known as: “Windmill Point Lighthouse”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fort Montgomery and Rouses Point Seaplane Base.
Fort Montgomery
Fort
Photo: Mfwills, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Montgomery on Lake Champlain is the second of two United States forts built at the northernmost point of the United States part of the lake: a first, unnamed fort had been built on the same site in 1816 but had been disassembled after engineers realised they were technically building on Canadian territory. Fort Montgomery is situated 1½ miles north of Windmill Point Light.
Rouses Point Seaplane Base
Aerodrome
Rouses Point Seaplane Base is a public use seaplane base located on the Richelieu River in Rouses Point, a village in Clinton County, New York, United States.
Rouses Point station
Railway station
Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rouses Point station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Rouses Point, New York, served by the single daily round trip of the Adirondack. The station building is a former Delaware and Hudson Railway constructed in 1889, with a one low-level side platform on the east side of the track. Rouses Point station is situated 1½ miles northwest of Windmill Point Light.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Champlain and Rouses Point and Alburgh.
Champlain and Rouses Point
Photo: RoyalbroilAlt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Champlain and Rouses Point are a pair of adjacent villages in Northern New York on the U.S.-Canada border. The villages, 20 miles north of Plattsburgh and 40 miles south of Montreal, are the northernmost in the state of New York.
Alburgh
Village
Photo: RoyalbroilAlt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alburgh is a village within the town of the same name in Grand Isle County, Vermont, United States. The population was 571 at the 2020 census. The town's name came from the person primarily responsible for chartering the community, Ira Allen. Alburgh is situated 2 miles east of Windmill Point Light.
East Alburg
Hamlet
East Alburgh is a populated place in Grand Isle County in the U.S. state of Vermont. It was formerly the location of the interchange between New England Central Railroad and Canadian National. East Alburg is situated 6 miles east of Windmill Point Light.
Windmill Point Light
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Grand Isle County, Northwest Vermont, Vermont, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.9818° or 44° 58′ 55″ northLongitude
-73.34172° or 73° 20′ 30″ westOpen location code
87P8XMJ5+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 2006043483OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseWikidata ID
Q8024299
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- German: “Windmill Point Light”
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