Every named pond in the Adirondack Park — quiet waters, lean-to destinations, swimming holes. Browse by region or jump to a name.
Twin Ponds sits north of Tupper Lake village in a wooded pocket of state land — small, quiet, and off the recreational radar for paddlers who typically track toward Raquette River or the bigger forest ponds. At 16 acres it's barely a blip on the topo, and without fish stocking data or a documented trout population it's more of a stop-and-look pond than a destination fishery. The value is in the stillness: no boat launch traffic, no motorboats, just a shallow basin and whatever brookies might have migrated upstream on their own. Best accessed by local knowledge or a willingness to bushwhack short distances from nearby forest roads.
Twin Ponds is a 5-acre water in the Old Forge area — small enough that it likely sees minimal boat traffic and functions more as a destination for anglers willing to walk in than as a paddling feature. No fish species data on record, which in this region usually means brookies or splake if it's been stocked at all, though some of these backcountry ponds go fishless. The name suggests a dual-bowl or split-basin layout, common in the glacial topography around Old Forge where kettle ponds cluster in tight groups. Access details aren't widely documented, so expect either a short unmarked approach or private-land complications — worth a call to the Old Forge Visitor Center before committing to the hike.
Twin Ponds sits in the Old Forge township — a pair of modest thirty-acre basins that carry the name but little of the traffic that follows the bigger fishing and paddling destinations in the Fulton Chain corridor. No formal fish stocking records on file, which usually means native brookies or nothing, and the access situation is unclear enough that most anglers and paddlers skip it for more obvious put-ins. The ponds likely see their heaviest use from snowmobilers in winter, when the Old Forge trail network opens up back-basin water that's otherwise hemmed in by private land. If you know how to reach it, you've already talked to someone local.
Twitchell Creek — despite the name, a 13-acre pond tucked into the Old Forge basin — sits in the kind of middle ground that doesn't command attention but still holds a day on the water. No fish records on file, no marked trails in the immediate listings, no summit routes converging nearby; it's lake-country real estate without the resort apparatus or the wilderness pedigree. The acreage suggests a paddling afternoon rather than a through-route, and the Old Forge context puts it within range of the town launch infrastructure and the Fulton Chain logistics. Worth knowing if you're working the back pockets of the region and need a quiet put-in that isn't on the standard rotation.
