Third Lake Creek drains the Fulton Chain in the Old Forge corridor — one of several connecting channels in a system where "creek" undersells the role these waters play in defining the paddle routes and portages between numbered lakes. The waterway sees consistent boat traffic during the summer season, less for the fishing (no species data on file, though the Fulton Chain brook trout and smallmouth populations move through) than as a navigable link in the longer through-paddle from Old Forge toward Raquette Lake. If you're day-tripping the lower Fulton Chain by canoe, Third Lake Creek is background infrastructure — quick, wooded, functional.
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