Plan Your Camping & Fishing Trip
From Your Computer
New interactive Web features bring State Parks to Vermonters:
Pick your park, plan your visit without ever leaving your keyboard
New interactive tools on the Vermont State Parks Web site give visitors more information at their fingertips and make it a snap to plan park visits and make camp site reservations.
Visitors planning a camping vacation or day trip to any one of the 52 statewide parks can now view a state map that links directly to a chart of recreational amenities and services at each park; visit interactive maps of each campground that link to photos of many of the available campsites; and link directly to Google Maps to see the exact location of each park.
A family looking to spend a week camping, hiking, swimming and fishing at a Vermont State Park, for example, could click on the amenities map link at www.vtstateparks.com and check off the activity options they want. With a list of the parks meeting their vacation requirements now showing on the map, they could immediately see their geographic options and click on any park to visit that park’s site page. Once there, they can look at the campground map to choose their campsite, see what other activities they might want to include on their vacation week agenda; what the current weather forecast is, and print driving directions.
From there, returning to the home page and clicking on the “Make Online Reservations” button takes them to a page with complete instructions and a place to make their reservation on the site’s encrypted system, run on a secure server.
All that’s left after that is the packing.
Director of Vermont State Parks Craig Whipple says, “This is a wonderful way for our visitors to plan their next trip to a Vermont State Park. Online reservations and planning are at an all-time high, and these are great tools to make it fun and easy.”
To check out these fun new features or to get more information on Vermont State Parks or upcoming events visit www.vtstateparks.com or call 802-241-3655.