Whitney/Hospital Creek Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is located in west central Vermont in the town of Addison, adjacent to Lake Champlain. The Area’s 157 acres are owned by the State of Vermont and managed by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. The State owns conservation easements on an additional 439 acres. Access by foot is via a gated road on the north side of the causeway crossing Whitney Creek on Route 125 in Addison. There is a small parking area on the west side of Route 125, just north of the causeway. One can access the Hospital Creek portion from privately-owned campgrounds along Route 125, with permission. This WMA also includes the McCuen Slang Fishing Access Area, which is located just south of the causeway on Route 125. It is a 53-acre parcel, with a dam, a small wetland and a boat ramp. Both Whitney and Hospital Creeks are short lowland streams which empty into Lake Champlain and have extensive lake level wetlands. The WMA is a mix of emergent and scrub/shrub wetlands, old fields, an apple orchard and forest. Farms and scattered woodlots surround it. The woods are composed mostly of white ash, red maple, shagbark hickory, red oak and hophornbeam. Buttonbush scrub-shrub swamp creates dense thickets that provide excellent cover for wildlife. The marshes are rich in aquatic plants. Cattail and wild rice are the dominant graminiods. River bulrush, three-way sedge and umbrella-sedges are present, as well as pickerelweed, flowering rush, yellow pond lilies, water-plantain, water-smartweed, water-dock, bulrushes, burr-reeds and duckweed. There are several different natural communities in the WMA, including cattail marsh, deep emergent marsh, buttonbush swamp, deep bulrush marsh and oak-hickory clayplain forest. The McCuen Slang Fishing Access is located in a shallow bay that is protected to the south by a small point of land. Behind this upland area is a small wetland consisting mostly of cattail marsh, which was created by an impoundment. The upland is an old field that is growing up in dogwood, elm, white ash, hickory and red oak.