Six-mile lake ringed by classic summer camps. Quiet neighbor to Schroon and Lake George.
Brant Lake is a small lake — six miles long — fifteen minutes north of Lake George, and it has had an outsize role in American summer-camp history for over a century. Brant Lake Camp for Boys, founded in 1916, is one of the oldest continuously operating private summer camps in the Northeast. Point O'Pines for Girls, on the same lake, was founded in 1957 and is similarly long-running. Several other camps ring the lake — Mistletoe Lake Lodge, Camp Pine Forest, the Brant Lake Sailing Club — and the eight-week summer rhythm of bunk reunions, color war, and Friday-night campfires has shaped the region's character more than any other single industry.
The permanent population is small. Outside camp season, Brant Lake is a quiet residential lake with a single small commercial cluster on Route 8 — the Brant Lake Inn, the Daby store, the public beach. The shoreline is mostly camp property, second homes, and undeveloped state land. There is no resort. The visitor economy is largely parents at drop-off and pick-up, plus a small but loyal contingent of camp alumni who time their Adirondack trips to overlap with the camps' summer schedules.
If Schroon Lake is the antidote to Lake George's scale, Brant Lake is the antidote to Schroon Lake's scale. It is a place to know that you know about, and a place where the camps run in unbroken multi-generation tradition.
Brant Lake
open
Pre-season
camps open late June
Brant Lake itself
Six miles long · camp-and-second-home shoreline
Brant Lake Camp for Boys
The Northeast's oldest, founded 1916
Point O'Pines for Girls
Founded 1957 · still on the lake
The Brant Lake Inn
Lake-side lodging on Route 8
Hayes Mountain
Quiet east-shore summit, easy hike
34 directory entries across 5 chapters · 34 pinned on the map · 4 Field Guides cover this region
Lakefront lodge on Route 8 in Chestertown.
1837 farmhouse B&B minutes from Schroon Lake — also a separate three-bedroom cabin rental on 100 wooded acres.
Six no-frills cottages on the water, owned by the same family since 1946
Where to stay, where to eat, what to do — the curated trio above, plotted.
The Adirondack General Store is a historic general mercantile established in 1855 on Schroon Lake. It features a cafe serving breakfast and lunch, a full deli and grocery, and a selection of Adirondack souvenirs, home goods, local crafts,…
Adirondack Pines offers lodging in an 1837 country farmhouse B&B and a renovated 3-bedroom vacation rental house, located minutes from Schroon Lake and area attractions.
Adirondack Rustics Gallery designs and creates custom rustic furniture and interior solutions, with a focus on experience, style, and bringing client visions to life.
Black Bear Restaurant & Bar is an American eatery in Pottersville, NY, offering comfort food, sandwiches, and breakfast. Known for its welcoming atmosphere, quick service, and popular dishes like meatloaf and gravy fries.
Avada Dance Studio is a professional prebuilt WordPress website. Feature your class schedules, instructor bios, vibrant galleries, and easy online booking.
Godwin Preserve in the Town of Bolton offers two hiking trails totaling 112 acres, with moderate difficulty. The Yellow Trail provides views of Amy's Park wetlands and High Nopit, while the Red Trail connects to Pole Hill Pond Preserve.
Hillcrest Cottages, Brant Lake, New York, Cottages in the Adirondacks, Warren County
A fine-dining room and private event venue on a 25-acre peninsula on Brant Lake, off Route 8. Weekly-changing menu, an award-winning wine list, and wedding bookings for the full property.
The Hub is a cafe, restaurant, lounge, bar, and bike repair shop located in Brant Lake, also serving the Lake George, Loon Lake, Friends Lake, and Schroon Lake areas.
A combined bike shop and casual restaurant on Market Street in Brant Lake, with year-round bike service and a seasonal restaurant, bar, lounge, and music programming.
A small lodge on Route 8 in Chestertown, on Loon Lake in the southern Adirondacks, with cabin-style accommodations and lake access. Year-round.
The Brant Lake Museum is housed in an 1890s farmhouse, featuring period furniture, clothing, tools, and photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries. It also includes a Carriage House with military and local hotel exhibits.
A trip designed for the whole family — toddlers to teens — that everyone will actually enjoy. Family resorts, beaches, easy hikes, rainy-day saves, and a sortable atlas of every kid-friendly thing in the Park.
Every swimmable body of water in the Park — public beaches, state campground beaches, swimming holes, waterfalls, and the small ponds nobody writes about. From Million Dollar Beach to Moffitt.
Brook trout streams that have been here since the glaciers, lake trout in two hundred feet of cold water, smallmouth on every shoreline — and a sortable atlas of every major water in the Park.
