Marcy Brook drains the northern slopes of the Marcy massif — feeding out of Marcy Swamp and the col between Haystack and Basin — before dropping into Johns Brook Valley and merging with the main Johns Brook corridor near the Bushnell Falls lean-to. It's one of those named tributaries you cross without ceremony on the way to something bigger: hikers bound for Haystack or Basin ford it on the Phelps Trail, and in spring melt it runs loud enough to hear from the ridgeline above. No fishing reports in the record, though brookies likely hold in the lower pools where the gradient flattens out near Johns Brook Lodge. If you're camped at Slant Rock or Bushnell Falls, it's your water source — cold, clear, and reliable through October.
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