Lake Champlain

Visiting Lake Champlain

The center of the lake is at 44.5300, -73.3300. It reaches roughly 400 feet at its deepest. Surface elevation is about 98 feet.

Shoreline access on lakes like this one is often informal and unsigned. Lake Champlain has no catalogued swimming beach in the sources we read, so plan around the managing agency's own facilities.

If Lake Champlain is busy, the nearest alternatives here are Waterbury Reservoir (Vermont, 30 mi), Lake Placid (New York, 36 mi) and Lower Saranac Lake (New York, 45 mi). In all, 9 lakes in Vermont are covered here.

The same station reports water temperature, last read at 68.9 °F. Inland lakes are not monitored the way ocean beaches are, so posted signs matter more here. Swimming season in Vermont runs through the warm months, and day-use areas set their own opening dates.

Station 04294500, LAKE CHAMPLAIN AT BURLINGTON, VT, publishes the water surface elevation used here. The last value stored here, 94.32 ft, is from 2026-09-09. Over the record shown on the level page the gauge has moved between 93.36 ft and 98.62 ft (low on 2025-10-19, high on 2026-04-20). A low pool exposes stumps and mud in the shallow arms of the lake.