Every named reservoir in the Adirondack Park — flood-control basins, drinking-water sources, and the impoundments anchoring the southern watersheds.
Keenan Intake Reservoir is a small reservoir on the Hudson River, built to supply water to the Finch, Pruyn paper mill operations. Access is limited and the site remains industrial infrastructure rather than a recreation destination.
Keenan Reservoir is a man-made impoundment on the East Branch Sacandaga River, created by a 1908 dam for hydroelectric power. The reservoir spans roughly 300 acres and remains largely undeveloped — a quiet paddle destination with limited road access via seasonal logging routes.
Klondike Reservoir sits west of Speculator in southern Hamilton County — a quiet 118-acre impoundment that holds water for the village and sees minimal recreational traffic compared to the larger lakes in the region. No public boat launch, no DEC campsite infrastructure, and the shoreline access is limited enough that most paddlers heading toward Speculator choose Lake Pleasant or Sacandaga Lake instead. The reservoir name — like a handful of other "Klondike" features across the Adirondacks — dates to the late 1890s gold rush era, when anything remote and rugged earned the label. If you're fishing it, call the town for current regs; stocking records and species data aren't widely published.
Kyser Lake is a 196-acre reservoir in the Great Sacandaga Lake region — part of the network of impoundments and flowages that redrew the southern Adirondack waterscape in the early 20th century. The lake sits in a lower-elevation zone outside the blue line's wilderness core, a landscape of seasonal camps, private shoreline, and working waterfront rather than trailheads and lean-tos. No public fish stocking records on file, and no state boat launch — access here runs through local knowledge and private permission. If you're hunting public water in this corner of the Park, the Great Sacandaga itself is the play.
