Every named reservoir in the Adirondack Park — flood-control basins, drinking-water sources, and the impoundments anchoring the southern watersheds.
Sacandaga Park Reservoir is a 4-acre impoundment in the Great Sacandaga Lake region — a working water supply tucked into the residential and recreational patchwork south of the main lake. The name suggests early-20th-century resort origins, back when the lower Sacandaga River valley was a chain of hotels and summer colonies before the 1930 dam drowned the original settlements and created the Great Sacandaga Lake. No public launch or DEC access on record; if you're not local to Sacandaga Park, your time is better spent on the main lake or the river corridor upstream. The reservoir exists in the category of Adirondack waters that serve a purpose but aren't built for visitors.
Saint Johnsville Reservoir is a 77-acre impoundment in the Great Sacandaga Lake region — utility water tucked into the southern Adirondack transition zone where the mountains flatten into farmland and the Park boundary gets less obvious. No fish species data on record, which typically means either limited public access or a reservoir managed strictly for water supply rather than recreation. The name ties it to the Mohawk Valley town of St. Johnsville, suggesting this is working infrastructure rather than a destination water. If you're hunting public access, confirm local regs before heading in — many southern Adirondack reservoirs are posted or restricted.
Steele Reservoir is a 161-acre impoundment in the Great Sacandaga Lake region — part of the watershed infrastructure that preceded the larger lake's creation in the 1930s but retains its own distinct basin and shoreline. Access and fish data are sparse in the public record, which usually means limited stocking history and private or restricted shoreline — common for utility reservoirs that predate modern recreational planning. The water sits in mixed second-growth forest typical of the southern Adirondacks, where the terrain flattens and the paddling is quiet but the trout fishing moves north. Worth confirming access and regs with DEC Region 5 before planning a visit.
