Lake Hortonia — Attraction in Hubbardton

The biggest problem when visiting this lake is that Vermont charges $500 per family for entrance. Most people cannot afford this, obviously. I was told the money goes into a fund that will be used eventually to provide single-payer health insurance for Vermonters. Since there were five of us, and we were already there, I paid the money, but, needless to say, we won’t be back.

The lake is nothing special, anyway: It’s almost surrounded by very expensive homes and high- priced hotels. You can find the same kind of attraction at lakes in New Hampshire, say Winnipisauke, for just a small admissions fee of $10 per family up to eight people charged by New Hampshire’s Public...

My family has owned a house on this lake since before I was born. As another poster said, yes, there is milfoil which is probably its only drawback. Someone else mentioned $500 for entrance and it being surrounded by expensive hotels... that does NOT sound like Hortonia. I can't think of even one hotel on the lake. If that poster ever reads this, were you talking about Lake Bomoseen?? That seems to be more likely.

Lake Hortonia is not big, but it's a peaceful and beautiful lake. A large portion of my best memories are from here, I wish I could live there all year!! And that we could finally kill off the...

Awesome lake, quiet and apparently great fishing but we didn't get to experience that. Rented a janky pontoon from the country store. That place is VT af yet also a little slice of the bayou lmao it's one of a...