The primary campus of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh is in the city of Plattsburgh, in the North Country region of upstate New York. The campus is near Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains, in a region known as the Champlain Valley. The closest major city outside of Plattsburgh is Burlington, Vermont, which is less than as the crow flies, but takes about an hour to travel by ferry. The closest major city within New York is Albany (headquarters of the SUNY system), to the south. SUNY Plattsburgh also has a strong connection with Canada due to the Canada-US border being just north and the city of Montreal just over away.