Alburgh, Vermont

Alburgh is a corner of Vermont that reaches the rest of the United States only by bridge. The town covers the Alburgh Tongue, a low peninsula that hangs down from Quebec into the northern end of Lake Champlain. Its only land connection is to Canada. Drivers from elsewhere in Vermont arrive over bridges from Swanton and the Champlain Islands, and another bridge crosses the lake to Rouses Point, New York.

That makes Alburgh one of a handful of places in the lower 48 that are not attached by land to the rest of the country, although with bridges on three sides it is not a true exclave. Chartered in 1781, the town of about 2,100 people is a quiet landscape of farmland, lake camps and shoreline cottages, about as close as Vermont gets to an island community without being one.

• Vermont
  The Green Mountain State, the only landlocked New England state located in
• Lake Champlain
  A long, deep lake sometimes called the sixth Great Lake on
• Point Roberts
  A Washington town reachable by land only through Canada related