Every named reservoir in the Adirondack Park — flood-control basins, drinking-water sources, and the impoundments anchoring the southern watersheds.
Alder Pond is a 22-acre reservoir in the Old Forge area — small-scale impoundment water that doesn't make it onto most fishing or paddling lists, and the state hasn't cataloged a resident fishery. The name telegraphs the shoreline: alders, soft edges, likely beaver influence, the kind of water that reads more like wetland transition than open pond. It sits in Old Forge's working landscape of camps, logging roads, and secondary drainages — not a destination, but the sort of place that shows up when you're poking around dirt roads or studying the 7.5' quad. No trail register, no DEC signage, no launch; if you know where it is, you probably live nearby.
