Hotwater Pond is a 10-acre water tucked into the southern Adirondacks near Indian Lake — a region more forgiving than the High Peaks, where ponds like this tend to sit off unblazed woods roads or old logging routes rather than official DEC trails. The name suggests either a warm shallow basin (common in lowland ponds that heat up by midsummer) or some forgotten local story that never made it into the record books. No fish data on file, which either means it's been unstocked for decades or it winters out — shallow ponds in this drainage tend to go anoxic under ice. Worth a look if you're poking around the Cedar River Flow corridor or the old routes between Indian Lake village and the Moose River Plains, but expect to bushwhack the last stretch.
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