Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Old Pond sits in the Great Sacandaga Lake basin — a small, ten-acre impoundment in the southern Adirondacks where the landscape flattens out and the High Peaks give way to rolling forest and older lakeside communities. The pond is part of the broader Sacandaga watershed, shaped by the 1930 damming that created the Great Sacandaga Lake reservoir and redrew the map of Fulton and Saratoga counties. No fish species data on file, which typically means limited angling pressure and a pond that's either difficult to access or too shallow and weedy to sustain a meaningful fishery. The Sacandaga region skews toward motorboat-and-cottage access rather than backcountry trail culture — Old Pond likely falls into that category.
Owl Pond is a three-acre pocket water in the Great Sacandaga Lake region — small enough that it rarely shows up on recreational fishing maps and carries no species data in the DEC records. The name suggests old surveyor's nomenclature or a landowner's reference that stuck, and ponds this size in the southern Adirondacks often sit on mixed public-private land or within larger forest tracts with limited marked access. Without trail data or stocking history, this is the kind of water that rewards local knowledge more than a GPS pin. If you're in the area and know the access, it's worth checking shoreline structure for native brookies or holdover panfish.
