The best camping near Brighton State Park

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Brighton Campground

59 sites · RVs, Tents In Brighton State Park

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Burke Line Farm

5 sites · Lodging, Tents148 acres · Burke, VT

Burke Line Farm is located in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We are a working horse farm. Lessons and trail rides are offered Mondays-Wednesdays. Along with the horses we have sheep and lambs for market and wool. Our land is relatively flat with many trails for riding or walking. A short drive will bring you to Willoughby Lake, Kingdom Trails, and Burke Mt.

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Island Pond ATV Trailside Camping

5 sites · RVs, Tents15 acres · Island Pond, VT

On dirt road in the Kingdom, near Lake Willoughby and Kingdom Trails. Can ride ATV’s and Side by Sides from property. Great downtown with gas,restaurants and liquor store a short ride away. Canoe in the Clyde river ,hiking trails or visit Dirt Church Brewery. Island Pond has the best beach at its State Park.

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Dirt Church Brewing Company

4 sites · RVs, Tents1 acre · East Haven, VT

Camp behind an 1876 Church next to an amazing Vermont Craft Brewery with food and great beers. Ride bikes at KT, kayak and fish near streams with all the amenities of a craft brewpub next door. Easily accessible in the Northeast Kingdom surrounded by woods, mountain ranges, streams and rivers and Burke MT.

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Green Mountain View’s

1 site · Tent48 acres · Barton, VT

Please look up the Wiki about Barton Vermont . Fascinating history and information about the area . This property will be turned into a homestead for my now 13 year old daughter who has become too Americanized and on her phone all day 😉. She is going to learn how to grow her own food and become fully self sustainable . In the meantime I would like Hipcampers to enjoy the property and the views . Learn more about this land: Great mountain and lake views on secluded 48 acres ! The property is close to Crystal Lake , Lake Willoughby. You can see Canadian mountains from the top camping site . I Recommend parking in lower lot and hiking to the top to camp. The road is a off road/logging road to the top. Hipcamp and myself does not cover any damage to your vehicle . Read reviews before booking. It is a hike to the top that takes about 10-15 minute. Wear proper footwear . Must be a camper, outdoorsy or in decent shape to book this campsite . Again , please read reviews before booking . Thank you

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Green Mountain Garden Bed

3 sites · RVs, Tents39 acres · Burke, VT

NEW COMPOST TOILET and rain water catchment system AVAILABLE FOR USE! 🌳🌻🚵‍♂️🛶🏕️The field is nestled in an apple orchard among the forest. There is a small brook at the edge of the field and runs through the 39 acres. We are minutes away from mountain biking at the Kingdom Trails, Restaurants and bars, Lake Willoughby, Fire Fly farm stand, rock climbing, hiking, kayaking, canoeing, downhill skiing and snowboarding, ice climbing, ice fishing, cross country skiing, snow showing and vast trails. ✨👁️🌀💪🏼🌳Our vision is to create a Food Forest campground. Every penny goes toward stewarding the land! With the profits we buy more perennial food and herb plants, improve facilities and help build infrastructure. ♻️🚽🧻♻️Please note: We now have a composting toilet! Please put 2 scoops of sawdust in the bucket after you go. The rainwater catchment part for the dish pit is still under construction but the toilet is fully functional. 🌳🦫🦆💧 Also check out the beaver duck pondbehind campsite 2! My father and the beavers have been hard at work creating waterfowl and local habitat. My father put in two wood duck nesting boxes that both have occupants :) Bill has planted smartweed, millet, buckwheat, wild rice and dwarf corn for our non human friends. Feel free to explore down there just bring some muck boots! 🍓🫐🌳⚠️Forage at your own risk and please practice sustainable foraging practices. IF you have any questions regarding sustainable foraging, we would be happy to inform you. :) 🌱🪴🌿🌳Last fall and this spring: with last years earning we planted 3 cherry trees, 7 plum trees, 3 peach trees, 4 pears, 2 apple trees, 6 hazelberts, 4 elderberry bushes, 2 naniking cherrys, 4 gooseberries, 6 blueberry plants, 3 rose bushes, Adonis berries, 12 read berry bushes, 6 rhubarb plants, 3 high bush cranberries, 2 black walnut trees, 3 mulberry trees, 3 chestnut trees, 3 red oak trees, 4 hard kiwi vines and 3 grape vines. We look forward to grow our food forest every spring and fall season with your contributions :)! Feel free to text the number provided with any questions or requests. Enjoy your stay at The Garden Bed!

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Clyde River Camping

5 sites · RVs, Tents100 acres · Charleston, VT

In August of 2021 we had been approached by folks wanting to camp on our property because of the beautiful views and riverfront water access. In keeping it reasonable and safe, we found HIPCAMP offered us the best venue to do so. Site #1 is camper/RV accessible with lots of room for friends, vehicles and a field to set up tents or game playing areas. If deep woods camping is what you prefer, we offer that as well. We offer free firewood, picnic tables and outhouses. Fresh water pond for cooling off and bathing. 100 acres of trails through the woods, fields and 3/4 mile of river frontage for all your outdoor activities. Kayaking and canoeing from all of our sites (Rentals available nearby at https://www.clyderiverrecreation.com), fishing, bird and big game watching (see actual game cam pictures in our photo gallery), mountain climbing and mountain biking (Best mountain bike trails in New England available close by in Burke, Vt. (https://www.kingdomtrails.org)! Peaceful, country relaxed atmosphere.

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Dandy weed cottage

1 site · Lodging12 acres · Morgan, VT

Enjoy our very livable tiny home on 11.75 acres, complete with a babbling brook, springtime waterfall, Mountain Views, large flat lawn with fire pit, and pure serenity. Just 19 miles away is majestic lake willoughby and endless hiking at your toes! The great Vermont corn maze is about an hour south and is an awesome day of fun with family. Take a ride north to the Vermont lavender farm in derby, where the views will literally take your breath away. World famous kingdom trails bike system in East Burke is a beautiful 35 minute drive south, be sure to check them out if you’re a savvy on two wheels.

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Firefly Farm at Burke Hollow

4 sites · RVs30 acres · Burke, VT

Our story begins around the turn of the millennium when we were expecting our first child and thinking passionately about how we wanted to nourish him. We planted our first garden, shopped at the co-op, and began working with whole foods: baking our own breads, tortillas, canning jams, and freezing small harvests. After an unexpected move to the coast of Maine, we took advantage of the climate, and began growing a lot of our own food, raising hens, and dreaming about a farm of our own where we might grow enough food to sustain ourselves. The dream included a farm with an old barn, still standing, and a place to build a tiny net zero home. It also included many vegetable gardens, a farm stand, a mature apple orchard and sugarbush, a pond, a cleared pasture, at least 25 acres, and it had to be in a cool town in Vermont. This list grew over the years, as did our family. As a family of four, we had become very connected to our community in Maine, and suspected that we would not return to our home state until many years later when the kids were grown. But one night at the kitchen table, in a moment of political frustration, we peeked at the real estate listings, and there was our farm! All of it! Waiting for us! So we jumped ship, all four of us, and said good-bye to our dear friends and the house that had been our home for almost a decade. We bought a used camper and landed, home. In our first two years back, we built a small energy efficient house, a chicken coop and a sugar shack. We dug a pond, created gardens, grew some vegetables, planted berry bushes and more apple trees, thinned the sugarbush and boiled some sap. With the help of the Vermont State Conservation Grant, we began rehabbing an 1800s barn that is the only remaining structure of the original farm. In our third year, we launched a CSA, opened a farm-stand made and sold maple syrup, erected a hoop house, built a greenhouse and guest space. Our dream evolves. We are doing what we love, in a beautiful place, and designing a means of sharing it all with others. We hope to continue to grow food, nourish our community, host events, and allow the dream to grow for generations. Tucked in the hills of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Firefly Farm is committed to providing access to locally grown food free of pesticides, utilizing farming practices that enhance biodiversity while combating climate change, and working with nature to promote wellness for our Earth and all its beings. Stay with us, connect with the Earth, engage with the community, and recreate in the beautiful Northeast Kingdom! Our campsites are primitive. There are no toilet facilities and toilets are the responsibility of the campers. All waste must be carried out and disposed of properly. Thank you for keeping Vermont clean!

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Off Piste Farm

3 sites · RVs, Tents50 acres · West Burke, VT

We operate a small working farm on our 50 acre property. Approximately 7 acres is cleared fields where we grow hemp, pigs and chickens. We are at the end of a dirt road with private access and stunning views of the surrounding mountains. If you decide to stay with us we can guarantee you your own private tent site to get away from it all, or a beautiful spot to park your van, car or small camper, all while still being only 10 minutes to the amenities of town, 15 minutes to world famous mountain biking at Kingdom Trails, or 20 minutes to breathtaking Lake Willoughby. Learn more about this land: We have two private tent platforms located in a mature mixed hardwood forest on our 50 acre property, as well as one van/small camper/car camping site located on the edge of our field. Each tent platform site includes an elevated and level 10'x12' cedar tent platform, a picnic table, and more privacy than the car camping site. Parking is less than a 1 minute walk from the platforms down a well maintained woods road and gorilla carts are available to help haul your gear. Many guests who wish to stay right next to their cars choose to car camp on the edge of the field in the car camping site, either pitching a tent or spending the night in their small camper. The views from this site are breathtaking, but it has less privacy as it is located next to the communal firepit, and amidst our working farm so we will occasionally be around doing chores, (the chickens and pigs are early risers). The communal fire pit has a great view and a few chairs are provided. Seasoned firewood is available for purchase, and we ask that you please do not harvest or burn your own wood off the property. Potable drinking water and a portable toilet are also available onsite for our guests. Well behaved pets are welcome, but must remain on a leash to ensure they do not disturb our plants or farm animals. We are at the dead end of a gravel road and can guarantee complete privacy and seclusion if you are looking to get away from it all, yet still be located conveniently within 10 minutes of Lyndonville, 15 minutes to Kingdom Trails and East Burke, 20 minutes to Lake Willoughby, and at the doorstep to the beautiful wilderness of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom!

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Little Sister's Campsite

3 sites · Lodging, RVs, Tents25 acres · Newport, VT

As private as private gets but only 6 miles to Newport Vt. There is a creek and a one acre pond (20 feet deep). It is all mixed hard and softwoods. It has some magnificent old growth trees 100 foot tall. There is a good rd that my friend has used with his Lincoln. Most any vehicle (car or Pickup)can get to the site. It gets a little tricky if you are pulling a trailer. A small one is OK but a large one - not so much....... The rd goes 1/2 mile to the rear of the land. Moose, deer and other critters visit too. We live 1/2 mile away from where you enter the woodlot. Our house is on Brownington Pond (200+ acres) & campers can use this site for swimming, boating & fishing. For more info call 863220 5881 Excellent drinking water is available from the hose at our house. Fires are allowed & we supply the wood at no extra charge.

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Burke Mountain Bike Camp Haven

5 sites · Tents6 acres · East Burke, VT

As an avid mountain biker, nature lover and adventurist I decided to purchase this piece of property near the network of trails as East Burke continues to grow. I always loved camping and want to share that with others. It’ll take me some time to build in campsite amenities but would love to have others be part of that journey. Come pitch a tent and stay for awhile.Learn more about this land:Welcome to Balmoral, a camp haven in progress. Enjoy over six acres of forest on a private dead end road. There are views of Burke Ski Resort and amazing sunsets. From the property you can bike to the Kingdom Trails of East Haven via Flower Brook Rd. You can also meander through the property and follow it to Flower Brook or take a short drive towards Victory for swimming holes, fishing, or Radar MTN. The property has several choices in finding the perfect spot to pitch a tent. From the parking area there is about 1.5 acres and amazing sunsets. There is a neighboring rooster however. Downhill from the parking area is main base camp. There is about four acres. The most level, an old log landing. Is base camp. It has an outhouse, a hot shower and dish area, fire pit and a platform tent. There is no potable water but a stream nearby to boil or filter water if needed. The property does abut two other private camps.

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Old Stone House Museum VT

3 sites · RVs, Tents60 acres · Brownington, VT

Learn more about this land: African American Alexander Lucius Twilight built the Old Stone House at the heart of our 60+ acre historic village in pastoral Brownington, Vermont. Our grounds include gorgeous Prospect Hill and Observatory Tower, a Heritage Apple Orchard, Giving Gardens and a one+ mile Twilight Educational Trail you can hike, ski or snowshoe. We have a designated spot for anyone camping with car(s) and tents. The nine historic buildings which comprise our grounds are all accessible by car or truck. No campfires allowed at this time.

The best camping near Brighton State Park guide

Overview

About

Situated on the shores of both Spectacle and Island Pond in Vermont’s northeastern highlands, Brighton State Park is one of the state’s most remote and wild state parks. The dense forests in this corner of Vermont provides the perfect habitat for moose, bears, coyotes, and hundreds of songbirds. Hiking, paddling, fishing, and swimming are popular activities in the park and the campground at Brighton State Park offers 54 campsites, 23 lean-to shelters, and five cabin rentals. The park also features two swimming beaches, a nature center, playground area, and boat rentals.

Tips for snagging a campsite

Reservations are strongly recommended, especially during the summer months and on weekends. Reservations can be made up to 11 months in advance online or over the phone.
Brighton State Park does not have any designated first-come, first-served campsites, but campers are welcome to stay in the campground without reservations, space permitting.
Same day reservations can only be made by contacting the park directly.
The five waterfront cabins can be reserved up to eleven months in advance. Book early, cabin rentals fill quickly.

When to go

The Brighton State Park Campground is open Memorial Day weekend through Indigenous Peoples' Day, the second Monday in October. The park remains open the rest of the year but access and services are limited. Thanks to its remoteness, Brighton State Park does not get as busy as other Vermont State Parks. Campsites are often available in summer, even without a reservation. July and August are the best times for swimming and boating and fall colors often peak in late September.

Know before you go

Campsites include fire rings, picnic tables, and access to flush toilets, coin-operated showers, and a dump station. There are no hookups.
Kayaks, canoes, and paddle boards are available to rent at the campers’ beach.
The park’s interpretive center offers nature crafts, night hikes, and campfire programs.
Dogs are not allowed on beaches, designated swimming areas, in day use areas, or in most cabins. Dogs are allowed elsewhere in the park.