Burlington’s Champlain Parkway, a project 60 years in the making, opens to the public

Burlington Mayor Emma-Mulvaney-Stanak waves from the passenger seat of a 1965 Ford Mustang driven by Dan Nolin of Georgia during the opening ceremony for the Champlain Parkway in Burlington on Monday, June 29, 2026. Nolin’s Mustang was built in the year the road was conceived of 61 years ago. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON — After more than six decades of starts and stops, legal fights and revisions to plans already revised, the final segment of Burlington’s Champla