Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Duck Pond is a small backcountry water in the Adirondack interior — exact acreage unstated, but mapped by USGS and known to local paddlers. Access typically involves a bushwhack or unmaintained carry; expect solitude and variable water levels by late summer.
Duck Ponds is a two-acre pocket water in the Saranac Lake region — small enough that it lives in the gaps of most trail maps and quiet enough that it stays that way. The name suggests multiple lobes or basins, though at this size it's more likely a single shallow body with irregular shoreline or seasonal wetland margins. No fish data on record, which at two acres usually means minimal depth, heavy vegetation, or both — better frog habitat than trout water. Access details are sparse, but waters this size in the Saranac Lake orbit are often old log-drive remnants or the back corners of larger trail systems.
Dudley Pond is a 10-acre pocket of water in the Paradox Lake region — quiet, tucked away, and off the main tourist circuits that funnel traffic to Paradox Lake itself or the Crown Point corridor. No fish data on file with DEC, which usually means it's either unstocked, winterkills periodically, or simply hasn't been sampled in recent surveys. The surrounding terrain is low-elevation mixed hardwood and hemlock — more Champlain Valley than High Peaks — and access details are scant enough that this one stays local. If you're poking around the back roads between Severance and Paradox, it's worth a look with low expectations and a topo map.
Dug Mountain Ponds — a pair of small, remote ponds tucked into state land south of Speculator — sit far enough off the beaten path that they rarely appear in trip reports or fishing logs. The combined 18 acres suggest shallow water and soft shorelines, the kind of ponds that hold brook trout in a good year and go fishless in a dry one, though no species data exists on record. Access is almost certainly bushwhack or unmaintained trail; the name implies old logging or settlement history, but the ponds themselves remain quiet, overlooked, and largely undocumented. If you're after solitude and willing to navigate by topo map, this is the category of water that delivers.
Dug Mountain Ponds — all 9 acres of them — sit in the working forest west of Speculator, tucked into a landscape of private timberland, seasonal camps, and unmapped logging roads where public access is either gated, permission-based, or nonexistent depending on the decade and the landowner. The name suggests old beaver work or hand-dug millpond origins, but without a marked trailhead or DEC easement the ponds remain in that gray zone of "technically there" waters that don't make it onto most paddlers' lists. If you're poking around the region with a local contact or a DEC forest ranger's offhand mention, it's worth asking — but this isn't a put-in-and-go destination. No fish data on file, which usually means no stocking history and marginal habitat for wild brookies.
Dug Mountain Ponds — a 17-acre pair of waters in the Speculator backcountry — sit off the typical paddling and hiking circuits, part of that broad stretch of working forest and private inholdings west of NY-30. No fish stocking records on file, no DEC campsite designations, no trailhead signage pointing the way — which means this one lives in that middle category of Adirondack water: accessible if you know where you're going, quiet because most people don't. The ponds drain northeast toward the Sacandaga drainage; the surrounding ridgelines are modest, forested, unnamed. If you're looking for solitude over scenery, and you've got a map, this is the template.
Dula Pond is a remote backcountry pond in the Five Ponds Wilderness, reached via the Oswegatchie River corridor or long overland trails. No maintained path leads directly to it — navigation skills required.
Dundan Pond is a two-acre pocket water in the Keene town boundary — small enough that it rarely appears on recreational lists and remote enough that access details stay mostly word-of-mouth. No fish stocking records on file, which usually means either sterile water or native brookies that nobody bothers reporting. The pond sits in the mid-elevation forest belt typical of the Keene back country: mixed hardwoods, wet margins, and the kind of quiet that comes from being off the standard loop. If you know how to get there, you already know why you're going.
Dunk Pond is a 20-acre water in the Indian Lake township — small enough to hold no official fish stocking records, remote enough that most paddlers drive past without knowing it exists. The pond sits in the working forest west of NY-30, part of the patchwork of private timber company land and state holdings that defines the southern Adirondacks — access here depends on current easement arrangements and whatever seasonal logging roads happen to be passable. No maintained trails, no lean-tos, no peaks within striking distance — just a quiet pond in the woods that appears on the map and occasionally gets a canoe dropped in by someone who knows the back roads. Check with the Indian Lake town office or local outfitters for current access status before making the drive.
Dunning Pond is a remote backcountry pond in the Five Ponds Wilderness Area, reached by unmarked routes requiring navigation skill. No maintained trail — access typically involves bushwhacking from nearby wilderness ponds or logging roads.
Dwight Pond is a five-acre pocket water in the Old Forge area — small enough that most paddlers blow past it on their way to bigger destinations, which is precisely its appeal. No official fish data on record, but ponds this size in the Fulton Chain corridor tend to hold panfish or the occasional stocked brook trout from years past. Access details are sparse, and without nearby trail listings or lean-tos it's likely tucked into private or semi-private land — worth a local inquiry at an Old Forge outfitter before loading the canoe. If you can get on it, you'll have it to yourself.
