Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Cascade Pond sits in the Blue Mountain Lake township — a 36-acre water in the central Adirondacks without the recreation traffic of its High Peaks namesake. No fish species on record with DEC, which usually means it's either marginal habitat or simply under-surveyed; local anglers would know. The pond's positioning in this part of the park puts it within the broader Blue Mountain Lake corridor — less vertical relief than the eastern ranges, more wetland and conifer bog in the watershed. Access details aren't widely documented, which often signals either private land complications or a simple absence of maintained trail infrastructure.
Chub Pond is a 7-acre pocket of water in the Blue Mountain Lake township — small enough that it likely sees more moose than motorboats, and remote enough that access details aren't widely documented. The name suggests either a healthy population of creek chubs in the inlet or the kind of nickname that sticks after one good fishing trip in 1947. No fish survey data on record, which in the Adirondacks usually means either truly wild brookies that no one bothers to stock, or a shallow basin that winterkills most years. Worth a look if you're already in the area with a topo map and a tolerance for bushwhacking — but this isn't a destination pond unless you're the type who considers "no information available" a feature, not a bug.
