Essex, New York Guide and Community Blog
For those who take frequent trips across Lake Champlain on the Essex-Charlotte ferry, you may be interested in acquiring the LCT commuter card to save some money. This card is especially useful since the discontinuation of the round trip tickets. There is a 30% discount on one-way tickets with the card! Learn more about how the commuter card [...]
The Old Essex Firehouse is an early commercial building in Essex, NY built out of locally quarried graystone. Currently serving as a seasonal gallery for the Adirondack Art Association, the space has served many purposes over the years. The prominent building located at the intersection of Main Street (aka Lake Shore Road) and Station Road [...]
Lake Champlain Transportation (LCT) has updated the Essex-Charlotte ferry schedule on their website. The Essex-Charlotte ferry is currently running on the spring schedule. The New York side crossing in Essex is now open from 6:30 am-8:30 pm and the Vermont side from 6 am-8 pm. There will be a ferry available every half hour from 10:30 am-5:30 [...]
The Essex Inn is once again honored to be showcased in the news. Kim and Pam Ladd visited the inn and wrote a well-rounded article that was released yesterday in The Adirondack Almanac. The article, “High Peaks Happy Hour: Essex Inn, Essex” describes the design and renovation of the inn as well as how it fits [...]
The Essex-Charlotte ferry has increased its hours already this spring! This is earlier than usual. Perhaps because of the unexpected good weather and short winter? The New York side crossing is now open from 6:30 am-8:30 pm and the Vermont side from 6 am-8pm. You can view the complete schedule on the Lake Champlain Transportation [...]
Saturday, March 24th, 11:00am At the Davis’ boathouse in Essex The Fling into Spring Polar Plunge for Planned Parenthood will be Saturday March 24th, 11:00 AM at the Davis’ boathouse. For those of you who don’t know that is right next to the Essex Ferry on Lake Champlain. We invite fearless friends who plan to plunge [...]
Essex Farm Spring Tour: Sun-Fed Systems DATE: March 17th, 2012 TIME: 10am to 4:30pm COST: Free for Essex Farm members. Non-members, $25 per adult, $5 for kids BRING: Food for potluck, appropriate clothing. See details below. ADDRESS: 2503 NYS Route 22, Essex, NY, 12936. We are one mile from the Essex-Charlotte Ferry. CONTACT: essexfarm@gmail.com NEXT [...]
With the discontinuation of the round trip tickets commuters on Lake Champlain’s ferries might be interested to know they have an option other than buying a one way ticket every trip. How would you like to have a handy little card you can just give to the teller and swipe when you want to cross [...]
For those of you that take the ferry across Lake Champlain you should be aware that Lake Champlain Transportation (LCT) has done away with round trip ticket sales as of January 3, 2012. Only one way tickets are available now. What is the reason for this? Apparently the use of round trips tickets caused too many [...]
“Does Lake Champlain harbor a monster? Port Henry sure thinks so. They celebrate his existence with their Annual Champ Day celebration, the first Saturday in August. Our resident monster, affectionately known as “Champ” or the nickname “Champy,” has been sighted for as long as people have been in this part of the Adirondacks. Old stories [...]
