Explore the Region
The Meadowmount School of Music is located in upper state New York in the Boquet River Valley in the Adirondacks near the shores of Lake Champlain. The nearest towns are Elizabethtown, Westport, and Essex.
Montreal, Quebec is 95 miles due north and Albany, NY is 131 miles due South. Burlington, VT is to the north-east on the opposite shore of Lake Champlain and Plattsburgh, NY is 35 miles to the north.
Meadowmount is surrounded by farmlands, Northern Hardwood Forest, mountains, rivers, and streams and is situated in the Champlain-Adirondack Biosphere Reserve. It is a beautiful, green, unique and very special place.
The region is home to a large Amish community and Amish farms dot the landscape around Meadowmount. Two Amish farm stands are short walk from Meadowmount.
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Further Information and Resources
Essex Ferry – Operating year-round, the Essex, NY – Charlotte, VT ferry is a beautiful and convenient way to travel from Burlington, VT to Essex County. The ferry terminal is a 15 to 20 minute drive from Meadowmount.)
Champlain Area Trails – This trail system offers an incredible number of well maintained and marked trails in immediate area surrounding Meadowmount. Some of our favorite local hikes are:
Lonely Hill Trail
Art Farm Trail
Twin Valleys Trail Network
In Meadowmount’s backyard and not part of any official trail system is Mount Inez, named for Inez Milholland. Inez Milholland was an important American suffragette whose family home was the Meadowmount estate.
The 46 Adirondack High Peaks
The Adirondacks are a beautiful place to explore and know for the 46 peaks that top out at more than or close to 4,000 feet. These are not easy hikes. (Any staff members leading hikes are required to have Wilderness First Aid training.) Our favorite starter hike is a pair of 46ers Cascade Mountain and Porter Mountain.
“This Park is different from any other in the nation, a place where epiphany has some hope of lasting and not disappearing on one’s return to the workaday world. Here epiphany and routine co-mingle, balance rules, and human history makes a dent in the landscape, but not a hole.” – Bill McKibben, American Environmentalist and Author
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers but as fountain of life.” – John Muir, Mountaineer, 1898