Nail Creek threads through the Old Forge area — a named tributary in a region thick with wetland channels, beaver meadows, and the kind of unmapped feeder streams that show up on USGS quads but not on trail registers. No fish data on file, no formal access listed, which in this part of the park often means private inholdings or remote headwaters upstream of the stocked ponds that draw the crowds. The Old Forge Wild Forest holds hundreds of miles of unmaintained drainage — Nail Creek is one of them, logged in some earlier century and left to grow back in. If you know which dirt road or railroad grade gets you close, you've likely already been there.
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