Dead Creek Wildlife Area Visitor Center — Attraction in Addison

Great welcome area with helpful staff and information about Vermont wildlife. A short drive provides the opportunity to walk along the waterway, into the woods and meadow further from the water.

Or, stop by the viewing pavilion at the edge of an extensive panorama of open meadow and farm fields. Without binoculars, the distant lake at which the flocks of huge white Canada geese rest during their autumn route from Quebec through Vermont to Delaware for the winter.

Although unusual at mid-day, we were fortunate to observe from the pavilion a large flock of these geese fly against the sunlit blue sky. They coursed to the west off in the distance. Beneath their formation in the far western panorama past Lake Champlain were the Adirondack foothills..

Their misshapen V-form circled back to the east on route to the small lake not visible to us. As they banked back, the angle of their flight in the sun fired the gleam of their whiteness, all the more so because of the cloudless blue, back to our unaided observation.

Their shoddy V streamed back toward their lake destination, circled over it, and, like a disappearing bed, descended delicately below our sight line onto the lake. Their well choreographed course rested them on their night's refuge, far from eyes, noise and intrusive...

We stopped by to get information on launching our kayak very impressed with all the animals in there all the details so much information on the area conservation well worth the trip to stop. The volunteer person there was very...

We stopped in for a break from driving, and the personnel on duty were super helpful. They helped my children to learn about birds and other wildlife in...