Destinations · New York
Essex
NY · 44.3100, -73.3525
Lakes to Locks Passage, Lake Champlain Byway - Vermont and Olympic Trail are 3 of 5 signed byways within 30 miles of Essex, New York.
Understand
This charming Federal period town prospered in the 1800s and today has become a somewhat "sleepier" rural community home to vacationers and year-round residents with an appreciation for the well preserved architecture and friendly population. Lake frontage, its relatively flat land, and the powerful Bouquet River made the town of Essex readily accessible to settlement, and sped its rate of development.
The same roads run past Burlington, where they are ranked and described in full.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Essex are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Lakes to Locks Passage · 2 mi · national
- Lake Champlain Byway - Vermont · 5 mi
- Olympic Trail · 15 mi
- High Peaks Scenic Byway (NYS Route 73) · 22 mi
- Mad River Byway · 22 mi
Public land
Lookouts
- LaPlatte River Falls · 8 mi
- Granite Steps · 14 mi
- Waterfront pause place 3 · 14 mi
- Winooski River Walk · 15 mi
Named places
- Essex Quarry Nature Preserve · 1 mi
- North Boquet Mountain · 3 mi
- Holmes Creek Covered Bridge · 4 mi
- South Boquet Mountain · 4 mi
- Eddy · 4 mi
- Eddy · 4 mi
- Split Rock Mountain · 4 mi
- Wilsboro Dam Fish Dam · 4 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Charlotte · 6 mi
- Shelburne · 8 mi
- Westport · 10 mi
- Hinesburg · 13 mi
- Burlington · 14 mi
- Elizabethtown · 14 mi