Follensby Junior Pond — 193 acres tucked into the working forest south of Upper Saranac Lake — sits in that category of mid-sized Adirondack ponds with limited public information: privately held or encumbered land, minimal state access, no formal trail system in the DEC inventory. The name suggests a relationship to Follensby Clear Pond to the west, part of the old Follensby Pond Club territory that included some of the earliest preserved wilderness parcels in the Park. Without documented access or fish survey data, this one stays in the "map notation" file until access conditions change. Worth watching if you track state land acquisitions in the Saranac Lake Wild Forest.
Closest parking lots within range, ranked by walking distance. Accessibility flags come from Google verified-data; surface and capacity from OpenStreetMap. Confirm hours and seasonal closures before you go.
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