Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Fish Creek Pond is the centerpiece of the Fish Creek Pond Public Campground — 355 sites, hot showers, boat launch, the full state-campground experience — making it one of the busiest developed waters in the northwestern Adirondacks. At 213 acres it's large enough to paddle without feeling crowded even on summer weekends, and it connects via navigable channels to a chain of ponds (Rollins, Whey, Copperas, Floodwood) that can keep a canoe or kayak busy for days. The campground sits off NY-30 between Tupper Lake and Paul Smiths, a logical base for families who want running water and a picnic table but still want to be on the water by breakfast. No fish species data on file, but the pond has historically supported warmwater populations — bass, pike, panfish — and sees regular angler traffic from the launch.
Fish Pond holds 119 acres in the Tupper Lake region — mid-sized water in an area where ponds routinely stretch into the 200–300-acre range and most get accessed by boat or long trail. Without species data on file, it's either lightly fished or quietly productive in that unpublicized Adirondack way where locals know and visitors pass by. The name tells you everything and nothing: functional, unadorned, the kind of label that stuck because someone caught dinner here in 1890 and no one bothered to romanticize it. Worth a deeper look if you're already in the Tupper system and mapping out lesser-known paddles.
Fishpole Pond — 19 acres tucked in the Tupper Lake region — sits among the quieter, less-cataloged waters where the northwestern Adirondacks flatten into working forest and private timber tracts. No fish species data on file, which usually means either no recent DEC surveys or catch-and-release fishing pressure too light to warrant stocking records. Access details aren't widely published, so assume gated seasonal roads or private easements unless you've got a local contact or a DeLorme page with notes in the margin. The name suggests an old camp or a skinny shape — or both.
Flagg Creek sits in the Tupper Lake region as a small fourteen-acre pond — the kind of water that appears on the map but rarely in conversation, likely accessed by bushwhack or private land rather than marked trail. No fish species on record, no documented camping, no trailhead pull-off with a brown DEC sign. These are the ponds that fill the gaps between the named destinations — worth knowing exist if you're studying a quad map or piecing together a cross-country route, but not a place you'd send someone looking for a day hike or a brookie dinner.
Floodwood Pond spreads across 230 acres in the Saranac Lakes Wild Forest northeast of Tupper Lake — a quiet paddling destination in a region better known for the crowded carry routes between Upper Saranac and the St. Regis Canoe Area. The pond sits in low-relief terrain with wetland margins and mixed hardwood shoreline; no dramatic peaks frame the view, but that's part of the appeal for paddlers who want hours on flat water without fighting wind or sharing space with motorboats. Access details vary depending on which section of shoreline you're aiming for — check the DEC unit map before you load the boat. No fish species data on file, which usually means it's been a long time since anyone bothered to cast a line here.
Follensby Pond is one of the largest privately-owned waters in the Adirondack Park — 742 acres in the Tupper Lake watershed, long inaccessible to the public and largely absent from guidebooks as a result. The Nature Conservancy acquired the property in 2009 and now permits limited seasonal access, though logistics change year to year and require advance planning. The pond has minor literary history: Emerson, Agassiz, and a cohort of Cambridge intellectuals camped here in 1858, calling themselves the "Philosophers' Camp" — a footnote in Adirondack mythology that gets recycled in regional histories. Access details and current fish population are unknowns for most paddlers; check with TNC directly before assuming you can launch.
