Mountain Pond is a 13-acre pocket water in the Tupper Lake region — small enough that it doesn't pull crowds, large enough that it holds its own character against the shoreline pines. No fish stocking records on file, which in this part of the Park usually means either native brookies that never made anyone's creel survey or a pond that winters too hard to hold trout year-round. The name suggests ridge access rather than roadside pull-off, but without a clear trail register in the DEC database it's likely old-growth local knowledge or a bushwhack destination. Worth a call to the Tupper Lake outfitters if you're hunting unmapped water.
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