Every named reservoir in the Adirondack Park — flood-control basins, drinking-water sources, and the impoundments anchoring the southern watersheds.
South Colton Reservoir is a 226-acre impoundment in the northwest Adirondacks — working water infrastructure, not a natural pond, and it reads that way from the shoreline. The reservoir sits in the Raquette River drainage between Tupper Lake and the St. Lawrence lowlands, an area defined more by working forests and scattered hamlets than by marked trails or state campgrounds. Access details are sparse; this is not a destination water for paddlers or anglers passing through the region, and no fish species data has been recorded in recent surveys. If you're in South Colton, you already know why you're there.
