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North Hartland Lake Beach (VT)

Day use, not campingThe agency files 3 records here and marks every one of them day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.

This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
Photos · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
560 ftElevation
311 ftWater · an unnamed stream
2 miSW of Lebanon, NH
61%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 13th darkest of 13 in VT

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices

In the agency’s own words

North Hartland Lake is a US Army Corps of Engineers day use facility located on the Ottauquechee River in North Hartland, VT. Close to the towns of Lebanon, New Hampshire, and Hartford, Vermont, North Hartland Lake is a popular destination for outdoor recreation in the Upper Valley. Keep reading

Recreation

Swimming, fishing, paddling, and boating are all popular activities at North Hartland Lake. A playground, horseshoe pits, volleyball nets, picnic tables and grills are available for all to enjoy. Family gatherings and events are also popular at any of the three picnic pavilions.

Facilities

The three picnic pavilions at North Hartland Lake can accommodate from 65 to 100 people each. Flush toilets are located close to the three pavilions, while portable toilets are provided at the beach area. A concrete boat launch is available for trailered boats as well as canoes and kayaks. Picnic tables and grills are dispersed throughout the park.

Natural Features

The North Hartland Lake Day Use Area provides a sandy swimming beach and boat access to the Ottauquechee River. Shaded areas and open lawns provide a variety of picnic opportunities.

Nearby Attractions

Quechee State Park provides opportunities for tent and RV camping as well as hiking. The Quechee Gorge is also a great area for sightseeing and exploring.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Pets must be kept on a 6 ft. leash.

Rule

No pets on the beach or the lawn area above the beach

Rule

Swim at your own risk.

Everything else this campground posts · 2
Rule

North Hartland Lake is a flood control facility and may be closed due to flooding during severe storm events.

Rule

For more information call: (802) 295-2855

Read them on the agency’s own page →
Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets · Portable Toilets
“…accommodate from 65 to 100 people each. Flush toilets are located close to the three pavilions, while…”
Boat ramp
Yes
Playground
Yes
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River, Beach
Swimming
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing here to sleep in

The agency files 3 records here and marks every one of them day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 29, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 29, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
Sites, a night, from$65From the rate schedule matched to 3 of its 3 sites. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no campground-level rate we can read.derived by CAMPANAC
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
Watch for a cancellation

Full? Watch it.

One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.

Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Tell me when the season opens

Watch for the season to open

One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.

Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.

We’ll write once, when the season that starts Sat, May 29 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Sites, a night, from$65
Derived by CAMPANAC from the rate schedule matched to 3 of its 3 sites. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no campground-level rate for this campground that we can read, only per-site rate templates its own record matches to each site’s own type.
Group areas, a night$65–$85
These are next season’s rates, May 29, 2027 to Sep 6, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.
No entrance fees for day use.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

Who keeps the booking fee

The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →

How we know this receipt · 5
Sites from: Derived by CAMPANAC from this campground's own priced campsites, using recreation.gov facility rate schedule matched to each site's own published type · Sep 14, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

3 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 3 mapped sites
283 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Most roomSmall Shelter 349 ftLower Shelter 283 ftUpper Shelter 283 ft
Least roomLower Shelter 283 ftUpper Shelter 283 ftSmall Shelter 349 ft
Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 3 records

3 of 3 records located
Day use3
Lower ShelterSmall ShelterUpper Shelter
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026
Imagery: Esri World Imagery
NORTH HARTLAND LAKE BEACH (VT)Lower Shelterday use15 amp283 ft279 ft$65–$85
NORTH HARTLAND LAKE BEACH (VT)Small Shelterday use15 amp349 ft775 ft$65–$85
NORTH HARTLAND LAKE BEACH (VT)Upper Shelterday use15 amp283 ft446 ft$65–$85

The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate43.59407, -72.36879
The phone802-295-2855
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today63°Rain Showers91% rain
Tonight36°Rain Showers Likely then Mostly Cloudy70% rain
Saturday42°Mostly Sunny
Saturday Night27°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for North Hartland, VT

Source: National Weather Service, BTV forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 37°F, day 60°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 9°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°0°

Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more

A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.

Measured at: LEBANON MUNI AP, NH (USW00094765), 4 miles away and 38 ft higher
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it · a letter you can send

Who answers for this land

Becca Balint, official portrait

North Hartland Lake Beach (VT) is in Vermont’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Becca Balint (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score
Who can change it · 3
Ask whether this could be a place to sleep

The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.

Read the draft, or change the wording
To Becca Balint

Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.

Subject North Hartland Lake Beach (VT) has sites, and nobody may sleep in them

Dear Becca Balint,

I’m a constituent in Vermont, at-large. North Hartland Lake Beach (VT), Vermont carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight.

I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not?

Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do.

Sent about North Hartland Lake Beach (VT) (Vermont) via campanac.com
To Bernard Sanders

Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.

Subject North Hartland Lake Beach (VT) has sites, and nobody may sleep in them

Dear Bernard Sanders,

I’m a constituent in Vermont. North Hartland Lake Beach (VT), Vermont carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight.

I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not?

Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do.

Sent about North Hartland Lake Beach (VT) (Vermont) via campanac.com
To Peter Welch

Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.

Subject North Hartland Lake Beach (VT) has sites, and nobody may sleep in them

Dear Peter Welch,

I’m a constituent in Vermont. North Hartland Lake Beach (VT), Vermont carries 3 records on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight.

I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not?

Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do.

Sent about North Hartland Lake Beach (VT) (Vermont) via campanac.com
How we know this · 4
Contacts: Contact forms from @unitedstates/congress-legislators · Sep 9, 2026
The figures in these drafts: Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress (CRS Report RS20643) · Updated December 4, 2025 · “The ship’s final procurement cost was $13,316.5 million (i.e., about $13.3 billion) in then-year dollars.”
The figures in these drafts: Salary Table 2026-GS, Incorporating the 1% General Schedule Increase, Effective January 2026 (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) · Effective January 2026 · “Grade 5, Step 1: $34,799 (annual rate, before locality pay).”
The figures in these drafts: Update to Civilian Position Full Fringe Benefit Cost Factor, Federal Pay Raise Assumptions, and Inflation Factors used in OMB Circular No. A-76 (OMB Memorandum M-08-13) · March 11, 2008 · “the civilian position full fringe benefit cost factor needs to be adjusted downward, from 36.45 percent to 36.25 percent”

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 3 of the 0 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 15, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.4 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 13 rated federal campgrounds in Vermont · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: North Hartland, VT, 0 mi WSW (a census designated place). Straight line.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026