A Missisquoi River Basin Blog

Although winter seems to be in full force in the Missisquoi Watershed, the solstice is right around the corner. Pearl wanted to take some time to tell her audience how to prepare for a Vermont winter and what to expect. Take out your notebook and follow along! The official start to the season of winter in the Northern Hemisphere is December 21st at 10:03am. People often celebrate the solstice with lanterns and bonfires to welcome back the light while eating seasonal food and

Pearl spends a great deal of her time swimming in The Missisquoi and Trout Rivers. Every once in a, while she looks up and sees a covered bridge and wonders what those are. To find out more, Pearl visited the six covered bridges in Montgomery and Enosburgh of Franklin County to learn! Pearl enjoying Creamery Bridge To start, she took an inventory of all of the bridges. Immediately, she noticed that all of bridges were built in the same time frame and by the same people. From

As our namesake implies, at The Missisquoi River Basin Association, we work across the entire Missisquoi Basin. The Missisquoi River Basin is the 855 square miles and encompasses The Missisquoi River. The Missisquoi River flows for 88 miles from the headwaters in Lowell to the delta, where the river branches out and drains into the Missisquoi Bay of Lake Champlain in Swanton. The original name of the river is Wázowategók, which translates as either “the river that turns back”