Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Lake Durant stretches along NY-28/30 just west of Blue Mountain Lake village — 325 acres of open water with a state campground (51 sites, most with water access) anchoring the northeast shore and a public beach for day use. The lake connects to Rock Pond via a narrow channel at the southwest corner, and paddlers use Durant as a staging area for longer trips into the Rock Pond / Stephens Pond / Sargent Ponds chain. The campground fills reliably on summer weekends and stays busy through foliage season — it's one of the few drive-to campgrounds in the central Adirondacks with this much lake frontage and immediate paddle-out access.
Long Pond is a three-acre pocket water in the Blue Mountain Lake township — small enough that it doesn't show up on most recreational planning, quiet enough that it stays off the casual paddler's radar. No fish species data on file with DEC, which usually means limited angling pressure and limited stocking history; worth a speculative cast if you're already in the area, but not a destination fishery. The pond sits in rolling mixed forest typical of the central Adirondacks — no dramatic relief, no named peaks within sight lines, no maintained trail infrastructure leading to the shore. Access details aren't documented in the standard guidebooks, which means either private land complications or unmapped Woods Department routes from an earlier era.
