The Raquette River is one of the longest and most significant waterways in the Adirondacks — a 146-mile run from its headwaters at Raquette Lake north through the Adirondack lowlands to the St. Lawrence River. In the Raquette Lake region, it's a short connecting flow between Raquette Lake and Forked Lake, more of a passage than a paddling destination, with most traffic headed to or from the lean-tos and campsites on Forked. Upstream, the river drains Blue Mountain Lake and flows through a chain of smaller ponds before reaching Raquette; downstream, it widens and slows through Long Lake and Tupper Lake before picking up speed again in the northern reaches. For paddlers based at Raquette Lake, the river is a launch point — not the destination.
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