Beaver Pond (Orleans County)
Beaver Pond is a remote 40-acre pond in the Bill Sladyk Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Orleans County. In part 2 of Natural areas of Vermont [1969], Hub Vogelmann described a cedar bog at one end of Beaver Pond, but beyond that, no details were given.
Here I provide an online map for reference. The map shows Beaver Pond to be in the far northwest corner of the WMA, just a few hundred feet from the Canadian border. I visited this area on July 24, 2023. From the designated parking area, I hiked an old woods road (now called the Round Pond Trail) to its intersection with the Beaver Pond Trail. At the end of the Beaver Pond Trail, I found a primitive campsite and two small boats, but no bog. Since the forest along the southern shore of the pond was dense, I decided to retrace my steps and try another approach.
A different map showed an alternate trail to Beaver Pond, so I decided to try that. To make a long story short, I found a cedar bog at the end of that trail. See the online map for details.
- My observations on this day
In retrospect, the quickest way to get to the bog is to paddle a boat from the end of the Beaver Pond Trail across the pond to its northern shore. I'll bet those boats are used for exactly that purpose!
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