Park events

Come create your own nature journal and learn how to draw Woodford’s flora and fauna. All materials provided!

Meet @ Interpreter's Tent at the Day Use Beach.

Join our interpreter around the Atwood Loop and find all items in time to win a prize!

Make sure to bring proper nature walk gear such as tennis shoes, sunscreen, a hat, bug spray, and your water bottle!

Meet @ Day Use Beach.

Learn to identify common mushrooms and enjoy some fun-gi related activities!

If the weather permits, a mushroom scavenger hunt around the Atwood Loop is possible.

Meet @ Interpreter's Tent at the Day Use Beach.

The Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation is holding a public meeting to present plans for an additional camping loop at Lake St. Catherine State Park, located in Poultney, Vermont.

The meeting will be held from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm on August 29, 2024, at Lake St. Catherine State Park in the Nature Center.

The plan reviews the opportunity to provide more camping sites at the park to support new recreational activities including a disc golf course and mountain bike trail access. The drafted plan proposes a new camping loop, which provides the opportunity for new services like hookups for waste, electric, and water.

Plan highlights include:

• 21 back-in RV sites (minimum electrical hookups)
• 15 tent sites
• More formalized circulation pattern to maximize the number of RV sites
• Maintains existing vehicular circulation from existing east campground loop (sites 1-22), but maintains single entry and exit points
• Minimal impact on existing east loop campsites
• Separates campsite types (RV, tent)
• Creates central common space with bathhouse, playground, and open lawn areas within RV camp area, and designates quieter tent sites along the southern edge

The public is invited to attend the presentation and view a draft plan of the proposed expansion. A public comment period begins on August 15, 2024, and closes on September 12, 2024.

Please direct comments and questions to contact Rick Hedding, Parks Regional Manager, at rick.hedding@vermont.gov or 802-770-0297. If emailing, please include “Lake St. Catherine Proposed Design Feedback” in the email subject.

The oldest of Mt Ascutney’s four quarries, the Tyler location was first used in 1768, more than a century before the better-known Norcross Quarry.  Join the Mt Ascutney Park Interpreter for a bushy walk up an old quarry road to a bushwack around the three Tyler quarry sites. We'll learn about how the granite was quarried and how it was used.  2+ miles, moderate difficulty.  Meet at the parking lot across the road from the Park entrance for carpooling to the beginning of the hike.

The Enright Quarry, one of Mt Ascutney’s four quarries, is a forgotten part of local history.   Join the Park Interpreter to bushwack to the quarry, explore the site, and imagine how the quarry operated.  About three miles, moderate difficulty.  Meet at the parking lot across the road from the Park gate.

Get up close with extirpated animal furs and skulls, as well as examine common VT woodland creature tracks. Meet at the Visitor Center.

It’s sumac season! Get familiar with staghorn sumac recipes while tasting some sumac “lemonade.” Meet at the Visitor Center

Our native species are under attack by multiple different insects. Spot the differences between these bad bugs and learn some prevention techniques. Meet at the Visitor Center

Learn about Monarch Butterflies and how to plant milkweed in your own gardens. Meet at the Visitor Center.