Mink Lake is a 13-acre pond tucked into the Old Forge backcountry — small enough that you won't find it on most touring maps, but named and mapped by DEC, which means there's legal public water here if you know where to look. No recorded fishery data, which typically signals either marginal habitat or a pond that doesn't get stocked and doesn't get surveyed — sometimes both. Old Forge has a lattice of old logging roads, snowmobile trails, and unmarked footpaths that connect dozens of these smaller ponds; Mink is likely accessed via one of those routes rather than a marked trailhead. Worth a look if you're already working a loop in the area and have a topo map that shows the surrounding wetlands.
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