Subject: Province Point Vermont.  / Beebe Plain Quebec/Vermont<br/>
Date: Jul 06, 2003 @ 16:44<br/>
Author: kontikipaul (&quot;kontikipaul&quot; &lt;contikipaul@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1835964718">With my wife visiting the inlaws I had a chance to drive up to <br/>
Vermont and enter Canada with a purpose to visit Province Point.  It <br/>
is a small isthmus from Quebec near Alburg Vt. that juts into the <br/>
USA.  <br/>
<br/>
   To get there was a bit of a tedius process but along the way I <br/>
went to Beebe Vermont/Quebec and saw both the CANUSA rd and the <br/>
CANUSA bowling alley.   <br/>
    <br/>
   Canusa rd as most of you know goes about 1/2 mile along the <br/>
border.  On the north side are houses (and business&#39;) in Quebec and <br/>
on the south is houses&#39; in Vermont.  From Canusa rd you can get to <br/>
Canada without going through a border, just drive around it, but not <br/>
back into the US.  Beebe Plain has about 15 roads between the two <br/>
countries that have a sign indicating you must report to the nearest <br/>
border stop at __________  There are three border crossings.  Two are <br/>
for locals and one is on an interstate for travellers.  <br/>
<br/>
  The bowling alley is bizarre.  It is on Canusa road but about 700 <br/>
yards (650 metres) east of the part that is half and half.  The <br/>
actual bowling alley is all in Canada but the parking lot is in <br/>
Vermont.   YOu have to drive down a slight hill passing a border <br/>
monument along the way.  The only way to continue into the USA is <br/>
across 1/ a river  2/ a bridge that has a road right up to a gate <br/>
that is closed.  It would be no problem to walk but to drive you <br/>
would need to unlock it.  It is beside a mill that looks like it is <br/>
entirely in the USA.<br/>
<br/>
  Provincial Point <br/>
<br/>
 ( <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://docs.unh.edu/VT/salb16nw.jpg">http://docs.unh.edu/VT/salb16nw.jpg</a> )<br/>
<br/>
   Is very close to a border crossing near Alburg Vt.   You need to <br/>
go into Canada about 800 metres (900 yards) to McPhie rd.  To look at <br/>
it you take the first couple of roads but they won&#39;t work.   Go to <br/>
the stop sign and turn right and drive to the end.  At the end there <br/>
is a campground and childrens camp.  The campground is immediately on <br/>
the right and the childrens camp you have to walk through to get to <br/>
Provincial point.  As a side note nobody knows the name Provincial <br/>
point.   You walk through the camp and a farmers field about 200 <br/>
yards to a border marker.  <br/>
<br/>
   The US part of the isthmus/spit/tongue is about 100 to 120 yards <br/>
long and maybe 25 wide.  There is one border marker only and it <br/>
doesn&#39;t say US or Canada.  Merely the names of treatys that <br/>
established the border.  There are turtles galore along this spit.  <br/>
THe only sign of human habitation is a POSTED NO TRESSPASSING sign.<br/>
<br/>
  When I was leaving I saw a farmer pulling a BBQ with a quad-trac.  <br/>
He was surprised to see me but because (army stint) of my french he <br/>
was really friendly.  THe first thing he said to me was it was all <br/>
private property.  He is an anglophone (English Mother tongue) but I <br/>
said I had come to visit the tongue.  I wasn&#39;t the first but visitors <br/>
are rare.  He said he owns the property on both sides of the border.  <br/>
The US side is a bit of a protected area for those Lake Champlain <br/>
turtles.   He finds a lot of dead turtles with antennas in the back.  <br/>
He said he has to pay both the US and Canadian taxes and the US <br/>
agriculture department one time sent him a letter saying that they <br/>
would &#39;like&#39; him to not let his cows eat on the US side because of <br/>
some sort of regulation.</div>