Santanoni Brook drains the sprawling Santanoni Preserve — a 12,900-acre tract northwest of Newcomb that was once the site of Camp Santanoni, a Great Camp estate now managed by the state. The brook flows north through mixed hardwood and wetland corridors before feeding into the Raquette River drainage, threading through a landscape that sits between the High Peaks Wilderness to the east and the Five Ponds Wilderness to the west. Access is mostly incidental: hikers encounter the brook on the way to Santanoni Peak or while exploring the preserve's carriage road system, though the water itself is rarely the destination. No fisheries data on file, but the surrounding watershed holds brook trout in its feeder streams.
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