Ausable Marsh
Eastern Region • Eastern Region
Ausable Marsh is a flat Lake Champlain wildlife-management hike focused on wetland habitat, birding, fishing access, and easy designated-trail walking.
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Ausable Marsh
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Ausable Marsh is a Lake Champlain-side Wildlife Management Area at the mouth of the Ausable River, where the main appeal is wetland habitat rather than elevation. DEC manages the area for wildlife observation, photography, fishing, hunting, trapping, canoeing, and natural-resource education, with hiking allowed on designated trails to protect sensitive plant communities. The listed route from the Ausable Point Campground area provides an easy, nearly flat marsh walk. This destination is best framed as a wildlife and birding outing with low physical difficulty, open water, delta habitat, and seasonal hunting awareness.