Lake Champlain Transportation Company - Grand Isle, VT to Plattsburgh, NY

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The Lake Champlain Transportation Company (LCTC or just LCT) provides car and passenger ferry service at three points on Lake Champlain in the United States.

Lake Champlain, the sixth-largest lake in the United States, reaches a maximum width of 12 miles and depths of more than 300 feet, making bridges impractical north of Crown Point, New York and south of the Rouses Point-Alburg-Swanton crossing near the Canada border. The ferry service allows convenient transport across the lake between New York and Vermont. Approximately one million passengers cross the lake by ferry each year.

Service is provided at three points, listed from south to north:

Charlotte, VT to Essex, NY
Burlington, VT to Port Kent, NY
Grand Isle, VT to Plattsburgh, NY
The Charlotte-Essex ferry is scheduled year-round, but may not operate if there is heavy icing on the lake. The Burlington-Port Kent ferry crosses the maximum width of the lake and does not operate in the winter; this crossing takes approximately one hour. The Grand Isle-Plattsburgh ferry is an ice-breaking route and provides 24-hour service year-round. The crossing on this route takes approximately 12 minutes.

Each run employs at least two double-ended diesel ferries, making the crossings in opposite directions. All ferries are capable of carrying large trucks as well as cars, bicycles, and foot passengers and are of a roll-on, roll-off design (although they can operate single-ended in the event of an engine failure).

During the summer, the company also provides dinner cruises and charters from Burlington as well as special runs that allow the watching of the Independence Day fireworks display at the Burlington waterfront.

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