The Raquette River is one of the longest free-flowing rivers in the Northeast — 146 miles from its headwaters at Raquette Lake through the center of the Adirondack Park to the St. Lawrence River at Akwesasne. The Tupper Lake stretch runs wide and calm, a classic flatwater corridor flanked by mixed hardwood forest and the occasional camp, favored by paddlers running multi-day trips between the Saranacs and Long Lake or making the straight shot north to Carry Falls Reservoir. Put-in access at the Municipal Park in Tupper Lake village (off Demars Boulevard); the river opens into Simon Pond just upstream, then threads northeast through a series of meanders and stillwater pools. Spring and early summer for reliable water levels; by August the upper sections can turn bony.
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