Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Allen Pond is a 16-acre water in the Tupper Lake region — small enough to slip past most paddlers, quiet enough to hold that status. No fish stocking records on file, which usually means wild brookies or nothing at all; either way, it's the kind of pond that rewards low expectations and a canoe you don't mind dragging. The Tupper Lake area holds dozens of these modest ponds tucked between working forest and state land — some with road access, some with old logging traces, most with beaver activity that rewrites the shoreline every few years. Worth a look if you're already in the area and hunting for solitude over scenery.
Arbuckle Pond is a 41-acre water in the Tupper Lake region — one of the smaller, lesser-documented ponds in a watershed thick with them. No official fish stocking records and no marked lean-tos or maintained access trails in the DEC catalog, which means it likely sees pressure only from locals who know the old logging roads or from paddlers threading through the larger lake systems nearby. In a region defined by bigger destinations — Tupper Lake proper, the Bog River flow, Raquette River access — Arbuckle sits in that middle category: not remote enough to be truly wild, not developed enough to show up on the summer lake-house circuit. Worth checking local outfitters or the town clerk's office in Tupper Lake if you're hunting quiet water off the standard routes.
Arquett Pond is a 17-acre water in the Tupper Lake region — small enough to be overlooked, large enough to hold a quiet morning if you can find it. No fish data on file, no marked trails in the public record, and no nearby peaks to anchor it on a hiking map — this is the kind of pond that shows up on a USGS quad and then waits to be rediscovered. Access likely involves bushwhacking or private land negotiations, which means it stays off the weekend circuit. If you know where it is, you know why you're there.
Ash Pond is a small five-acre water in the Tupper Lake region — the kind of pond that exists more on the DEC inventory than in the typical paddler's rotation. No fish data on record, no trail register at a trailhead, no lean-to marked on the quad map. It sits in that broad middle ground between the named features tourists chase and the swampy patches locals pass on the way to bigger water — likely accessible by bushwhack or logging road if you're motivated, but the effort-to-reward calculus skews toward leaving it for the beavers. If you're chasing solitude for solitude's sake, this is the kind of place that delivers.
