Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Mitchell Ponds is a 41-acre water in the Raquette Lake region — one of those mid-sized ponds that holds its own fishing and paddling audience but doesn't draw the roadside crowds. No fish species data on file with DEC, which usually means either light stocking history or catch reports that never made it into the system; locals with a canoe and a morning free will know more than the database does. The ponds sit far enough off the main corridors that you're not sharing the shoreline with through-hikers or day-trippers — just you, the water, and whatever's rising at dawn. Access details vary year to year; check with the town or a regional paddling outfitter for current put-in conditions.
Mud Pond is a 15-acre pocket water in the Raquette Lake township — one of dozens of small ponds scattered through the working forest between Blue Mountain Lake and Inlet. No fish stocking records, no DEC campsites, no named trail on the current maps — this is the kind of water that shows up as a blue dot on the quad sheet and gets visited once every few years by a hunter glassing for deer or a surveyor running a boundary line. The name tells you what you need to know about the shoreline. If you're looking for solitude and you know how to read a compass bearing off a USGS map, Mud Pond will give you both.
Mud Pond — three acres in the Raquette Lake township, tucked into the kind of drainage that earned its name honestly. No fish stocking records, no trail register, no DEC campsite: this is map-and-compass water for paddlers working the network of ponds and wetlands that lace the woods between the bigger named waters in the Raquette drainage. The shallows warm early, the bottom is soft, and by mid-July the lily pads claim most of the surface — classic beaver country, worth a look if you're already back there, but not a destination pond on its own.
