Stoughton Pond Rec Area
This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Stoughton Pond Recreation Area is a day use area located to the north of North Springfield Lake. Stoughton Pond is located off State Route 106 on Stoughton Pond Road in Perkinsville, Vermont. Keep reading
Recreation
Stoughton Pond Recreation Area offers plenty of activities for visitors of all ages. Many people enjoy canoeing, kayaking, boating and fishing. The state of Vermont Department of Fish and Game annually stock the pond with rainbow trout, and the pond also offers excellent bass fishing. A boat ramp is available, located off Plains Road. An interpretive trail winds along the side of the pond. Hikers are treated to views of wetlands and uplands, both with a wide diversity of natural habitats. A multi-use trail system is located at the main reservoir, North Springfield Lake.
Facilities
Stoughton Pond Recreation Area offers a group picnic shelter with tables and a large grill. Ten family picnic sites are also available on a first-come, first-served basis. Flush toilets, change house and drinking water are available on site. Amenities at this family-friendly park include a swimming area with a great beach, grassy areas for sun bathing and a boat ramp for small boats, canoes and kayaks. The park is staffed by uniformed park rangers who offer special programs on a variety of nature topics throughout the season.
Natural Features
Stoughton Pond is situated among rolling hills on the North Branch of the Black River. Open lawns cover the park, with hardwood and softwood trees offering areas of shade and wildlife habitat.
What the agency tells you
Day use only.
Closed Tuesday-Thursday. Day use area Friday-Monday 10:30AM-8:00PM
No pets and/or livestock.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Stoughton Pond Recreation Area picnic shelter is limited to 60 occupants and up to 40 vehicles
Please bring garbage bags; this is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility.
No ground fires; charcoal fires or self-contained gas grills only.
Anything that might change the atmosphere of the park requires approval from park staff before a reservation is made. Examples include but are not limited to: music, weddings/receptions, cooking arrangements, etc.
For more information call the Project Office at 802-886-2775.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Stoughton Pond Boat Ramp located off of Plains Cemetery Rd.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…on a first-come, first-served basis. Flush toilets, change house and drinking water are available on…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…basis. Flush toilets, change house and drinking water are available on site. Amenities at this…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 1 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Winter sports
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 35 km away
- Peak color
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 1 record here and marks it 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.
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.
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 make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
| Stoughton Pond Rec Area | Picnic Shelter | day use | 15 amp | yes | 141 ft | $65 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
North Hartland Lake Beach (VT)16 mi
Greendale CampgroundGreen Mountain National Forest · 16 mi
Hapgood PondGreen Mountain National Forest · 22 mi
Winhall Brook Camping Area22 miLittle Rock Pond/Green Mountain LoopRobert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area · 23 mi
Townshend Lake Recreation Area25 miTake VT 106 North to Stoughton Pond Road. The facility is about ½ mile to the left in Perkinsville, Vermont.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for North Springfield, VT
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Stoughton Pond Rec Area 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 →
Who can change it · 3
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.
- The member who votes the moneyBecca BalintU.S. Representative · Vermont, at-large
- Your senator, on the same appropriationBernard SandersU.S. Senator · Vermont
- Your senator, on the same appropriationPeter WelchU.S. Senator · Vermont
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Stoughton Pond Rec Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Becca Balint, I’m a constituent in Vermont, at-large. Stoughton Pond Rec Area, Vermont carries 1 record 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 Stoughton Pond Rec Area (Vermont) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Stoughton Pond Rec Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Bernard Sanders, I’m a constituent in Vermont. Stoughton Pond Rec Area, Vermont carries 1 record 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 Stoughton Pond Rec Area (Vermont) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Stoughton Pond Rec Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Peter Welch, I’m a constituent in Vermont. Stoughton Pond Rec Area, Vermont carries 1 record 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 Stoughton Pond Rec Area (Vermont) via campanac.com