Island Pond is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Brighton in Essex County, Vermont, United States.

Vermont Routes 114 and 105 pass through the community, joining as Derby Street leading south out of the center of the CDP.

[6] The weather station Island Pond AP is situated at John H. Boylan State Airport.

[9] Island Pond became an important railroad center in 1853 when the Grand Trunk Railway established international connections between Montreal, Quebec, and Portland, Maine.

Island Pond's days as a major railroad town were over by the late 1950s due to the elimination of steam locomotives.

By 1960 passenger train service to Portland had ended, and three years later the diesel locomotive shop was closed.

In 1966 barely a skeleton staff of people worked in Island Pond after the roundhouse closed.

The group, led by Yoneq Gene Spriggs, sought shelter from the opposition it met elsewhere, although it continually faced opposition which culminated in the Island Pond raid in 1984 where state police and state social workers seized 112 children due to allegations of child abuse.

The children were returned the same day upon a determination that the raid was unconstitutional, and no trial was held on the evidence of abuse the state found.

[11] In 2007, Brighton Constable Theodore "Ted" Miller's strict enforcement of traffic regulations became the subject of nationwide coverage.