Begin Riverside Park: mobile home park in Canaan, Vermont
Unofficial page — independent directory built from the Vermont state registry, updated July 2026.
Space available1 of 18 spaces reported vacant, July 2026
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A 18-space mobile home park in Canaan, VT. Fiber has not reached this town, so home internet here is cable, fixed wireless or satellite.
- Size
- 18 spaces · smallest of 2 in Essex County (median 21)
- Size vs the state
- Larger than about 52% of Vermont's registered parks
- Vacancies
- 1 reported
- Rent nearby
- 2-bedroom fair market rent $1,007/mo (HUD FY 2026, typical of nearby towns)
- Wildfire risk
- Higher than 5% of U.S. counties (USFS, county-wide)
- Tornadoes
- 3 recorded in Essex County since 1950, strongest F1 (NOAA)
- Internet
- 100% of homes at 100/20 Mbps · fiber 0% · gigabit 0%
Distances are straight-line, so the drive is longer. Internet and neighborhood figures describe the surrounding town — and the rent benchmark, wildfire rank, and tornado count the wider county — not this park’s own lots. The fair market rent is apartment-style rent (HUD’s area benchmark), not this park’s lot rent. Rent limits are not legal advice.
For residents
- Water billing: Vermont has no statewide rate rule specific to submetered water in mobile home parks — its submetering rule covers campgrounds, not parks — so ask the park how water is billed and what the charge is based on. Check the math free with the water submeter calculator.
- Paying rent: ask the park office how they take payment. Parks that run on Lot Sidekick hand residents clear, itemized rent and water bills.
- Thinking about moving here? What to ask a park before you rent a lot, and what lot rent covers and how it goes up.
Common questions
How many spaces does Begin Riverside Park have?
Begin Riverside Park has 18 total spaces per the Vermont park registry (as of July 23, 2026), with 1 reported vacant.
Is this Begin Riverside Park's official website or phone number?
No. This is Begin Riverside Park's page in the Lot Sidekick park directory, built from the state registry. We're independent of the park and can't take messages for it. The park office hasn't added a public contact here yet; if you own the park, claiming the page (free) lets you add one.
Where is Begin Riverside Park?
Off Route 102, West of Canaan, Canaan, Vermont, in Essex County.
How much is lot rent at Begin Riverside Park?
Begin Riverside Park doesn't publish its lot rent anywhere we could find, and we won't guess at a figure. Call the park office to ask. For scale: HUD's FY 2026 fair market rent for a 2-bedroom rental around Essex County is $1,007/mo — that's apartment-style rent for the area, and lot rent (the ground under a home you own) usually runs well below it. If you run this park, you can add your real lot rent to this page for free.
How much can lot rent go up at Begin Riverside Park?
Vermont sets no hard cap on lot-rent increases, but requires 60 days' written notice on the state's own form — an improperly noticed increase is unenforceable — and an increase above the state's annual threshold (5.00% for 2026) lets a majority of leaseholders petition for state-arranged mediation (10 V.S.A. §§6251–6253).
Nearby parks in Essex County
| Park | Distance | Spaces | Vacant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concord Estates MHP | — | 24 | 5 |
Free tools
- Park value & profitability estimator: what a 18-space park earns and what it's worth, at the cap rate you pick.
- Rent increase calculator: the 2026 Vermont cap applied to a 18-space park.
- RUBS calculator: split one master-meter water bill across 18 lots so the pennies add up exactly.
- Water submeter calculator: two meter reads in, an at-cost tenant bill out.
- Notice generator: a clean, printable rent-increase notice with the dates filled in.
- Rent receipt generator: a printable receipt for a cash, check, or money-order payment — two copies to a sheet.
- Prorated rent calculator: the exact first-month charge when someone moves in mid-cycle.
Registry record
| State registry ID | 199 |
|---|---|
| Registered with | The Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development |
| Listed as | Begin Riverside Park |
Data from official state registry that may be out of date.
Source: Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development mobile home park registry (2024 edition; accd.vermont.gov), as of July 23, 2026. Counts come from the state's registry and can lag real life. See something out of date? Tell us, or claim the page.
https://lotsidekick.com/parks/vermont/essex/begin-riverside-park