Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Falls Pond sits in the Raquette Lake township — 38 acres tucked into the working forest between the Blue Mountain Wild Forest and private timber parcels west of the main lake. Access details are sparse: no marked DEC trails lead directly to the shoreline, and the pond doesn't appear on the standard paddling circuits that draw crowds to Raquette Lake proper or the Forked Lake / Long Pond chain to the north. The name suggests a stream inlet or outlet with some gradient, but without maintained routes or documented fishery data, this one stays quiet by default. If you're poking around the back roads near Raquette Lake village with a topo map and patience, Falls Pond is the kind of place you find rather than plan for.
Fly Ponds — a 24-acre water in the Raquette Lake region — sits in the kind of mid-elevation terrain where the forest opens up just enough to let light hit the water but not enough to pull crowds. No fish data on record, which typically means either low pH, shallow depth, or simple absence from DEC stocking routes; worth a cast if you're already back there, but not a destination for anglers. The name suggests historical beaver activity or the presence of seasonal hatches that once made it notable to someone with a fly rod. Access and trail details are sparse — if you know the water, you likely came in from one of the Raquette Lake area trailheads or by bushwhack.
Fox Pond is a four-acre pocket water in the Raquette Lake township — small enough that it doesn't appear on most recreational maps and remote enough that it sits well off the standard lake-to-lake paddling routes that define this region. No public access points documented, no fish stocking records on file, no formal trails leading in. It's the kind of water that exists primarily as a dot on the USGS quad and a footnote in the state's gazetteer — known to the adjacent landowners, invisible to most everyone else.
Frank Pond is a 27-acre pocket water in the Raquette Lake township — part of the dense constellation of small ponds and wetlands that defines the western High Peaks transition zone. No formal fish survey data on record, which often means native brook trout or none at all; access is likely via unmaintained woods roads or bushwhack from the Raquette Lake area trail network. The pond sits in working forest land where property lines and public access shift over time — worth confirming access status with the DEC or local outfitters before committing to a trip. Small, quiet, and off the grid in the way that defines half the named waters in this part of the Park.
