Mud Brook drains north through the town of Keene — one of dozens of unnamed or lightly-documented tributaries feeding the AuSable watershed in this part of Essex County. No fish surveys on record, no designated access points, and the kind of small headwater character that keeps it off most trail maps and out of most itineraries. These modest flows do the hydraulic work: they carry snowmelt off the ridges, cool the mainstem AuSable, and define property lines for the farms and forestland between Keene and Keene Valley. If you're bushwhacking or following old logging roads in the area, you'll cross it — likely more than once.
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