A long-distance passage through Clinton County, this section of the Champlain Valley Trail traces State Routes 9 and 11 northward from Plattsburgh to the Canadian border across nearly one hundred kilometers. The route, which follows roadway corridors rather than backcountry footpaths, is said to offer sweeping views westward toward the Adirondack peaks and eastward across Lake Champlain's northern reaches. The trail traverses a landscape of working farms and small settlements, revealing the quiet rural character that has long defined the valley's northern extent.
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What to do, where to stay, and what's reopening across the Park as the snow melts and the calendar fills.
A complete planning guide: difficulty by peak, common combo days, seasonal realities, and a sortable, filterable table of every summit.
Brook trout streams that have been here since the glaciers, lake trout in two hundred feet of cold water, smallmouth on every shoreline — and a sortable atlas of every major water in the Park.
