Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Deer Pond is a five-acre pocket water in the Long Lake township — small enough that most maps skip it, remote enough that access details stay local knowledge. No fish stocking records on file, which typically means native brookies if anything, or just a cold, shallow basin that doesn't winter well. The pond sits in that broad stretch of working forest between Long Lake village and the western Wild Forest blocks — more logging road and private inholding than marked trailhead. If you're poking around this drainage, you're either hunting, snowmobiling in from a club trail, or following a local who knows the landowner.
Doctors Pond is a 27-acre water tucked into the woods near Long Lake — small enough to stay off most fishing pressure maps, large enough to feel like a destination if you're hunting solitude. No formal species data on file, which in this part of the park usually means wild brookies or nothing at all, and access details are thin enough that you'll want to ask locally or scout the parcel maps before committing gear to a bushwhack. The name suggests old settlement-era use — possibly a doctor's camp or private holding that's since reverted — but the pond's real value now is as a blank spot on the map in a region where blank spots are getting scarce. If you're in Long Lake and looking for water that doesn't come with a parking lot, this is the kind of place worth investigating.
