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Crystal Lake State Park

Coordinates: 44°44′46″N 72°10′16″W / 44.7461°N 72.1712°W

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Crystal Lake State Park
View of Crystal Lake from the beach area

Type	State park
Location	96 Bellwater Ave Barton, Vermont
Coordinates	44°44′46″N 72°10′16″W / 44.7461°N 72.1712°W / 44.7461; -72.1712
Area	16.4 acres (6.6 ha)
Created	1942
Operated by	Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation
Open	Memorial Day weekend - Labor Day weekend
Website	https://vtstateparks.com/crystal.html

Crystal Lake State Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

MPS	Historic Park Landscapes in National and State Parks MPS
NRHP reference No.	05000949^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 30, 2005

Crystal Lake State Park is a day-use state park and historic site in Barton, Vermont, United States.^[2] It is located at 96 Bellwater Avenue, off Willoughby Lake Road (Vermont Route 16) just east of the village, at the northwestern end of 763-acre (309 ha) Crystal Lake. It features a sandy beach with swimming area, and a bath house built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). A cottage is available for rental. The park was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on August 30, 2005, for its association with the CCC.^[1]

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Crystal Lake State Park is located at the northern end of Crystal Lake, a more than 750-acre (300 ha) body of water in southeastern Barton. The park is located just southeast of the village center, and is accessed via Bellwater Avenue off Vermont Route 16. The park has a wider area at its western end, where the entrance gate and parking area are located. Also in this area are a ranger's house and a small waterfront cottage, which is available for rental when the park is open. The parking lot is separated from the beach area to the south by a low stone wall built out of locally quarried granite. This wall gradually tapers off to the east. The eastern section of the park is narrow, with a strip of beach rising to a narrow grassy area. At the back of the grassy area near the parking lot is the bathhouse.^[3] The bathhouse has restrooms, changing areas, and a concession stand. Other features are about 40 grills, almost 80 picnic tables, play areas, and boat rentals.^[4]

Activities include swimming, boating, fishing, wildlife watching and winter sports. There is hiking in nearby Willoughby State Forest.^[4] Crystal Lake Cottage accommodates up to 6 people.

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The park was developed in the 1930s, mainly through the efforts of crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps. They laid out the park, and built its parking lot, retaining wall, and most of the bathhouse. The bathhouse was designed in David Fried, an architect based in New Hampshire who also created designs for other CCC-built facilities in Vermont. It, like the retaining wall, was built out of locally quarried stone, and is unusual among the state's CCC-built facilities for its partly Modern design, which is tempered by the use of rusticated stone. The building was completed in 1942 with local workers, because the CCC crews had been disbanded for service related to World War II.^[3]

The ranger's house and rental cottage were both purchased as additions to the park in the 1990s, and the gate house was built in 2003.^[3]

References

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "Historic Vermont" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2007. Retrieved November 18, 2007.
^ ^a ^b ^c Frank Spaulding (2004). "NRHP nomination for Crystal Lake State Park". National Park Service. Retrieved December 23, 2016. with photos from 2004
^ ^a ^b "Crystal Lake State Park". Oh Ranger. Retrieved July 24, 2016.

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Crystal Lake State Park

Protected areas of Vermont

Federal

National Historical Park	Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
National Wildlife Refuges	Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
National Forest	Green Mountain National Forest
National Wilderness Areas	Big Branch Wilderness Breadloaf Wilderness Bristol Cliffs Wilderness George D. Aiken Wilderness Glastenbury Wilderness Joseph Battell Wilderness Lye Brook Wilderness Peru Peak Wilderness
National Recreation Areas	Moosalamoo National Recreation Area Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area
National Trails	Appalachian Trail North Country Trail
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Missisquoi River Trout River

State

State Parks	Alburgh 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 Mount Ascutney Mount 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) Mount Mansfield Peacham Bog Shrewsbury Peak Spectacle Pond Tabletop Mountain Terrible Mountain Tinker Brook Weybridge Cave Willoughby Cliffs Worcester Range

Private

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Orleans County, Vermont
Districts	Brownington Village Historic District Crystal Lake Falls Historic District Newport Downtown Historic District
Buildings	Derby House Hotel Jerry E. Dickerman House District Number Four School Fox Hall Goodrich Memorial Library Greensboro Depot Haskell Free Library and Opera House William Hayden House Holland Congregational Church House at 68 Highland Avenue Irasburg Town Hall L. P. Jenne Block King Block Lakeview Inn Orleans County Courthouse and Jail Complex J. S. Sweeney Store, Barn, Livery and Hall U.S. Courthouse, Post Office and Customs House U.S. Inspection Station-Beebe Plain, Vermont U.S. Inspection Station-Derby Line, Vermont U.S. Inspection Station-North Troy, Vermont Ai J. White Duplex
Site	Crystal Lake State Park
Structures	Orne Covered Bridge River Road Covered Bridge
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans County, Vermont and List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont

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