Every named river in the Adirondack Park — the Hudson, the Moose, the Raquette, the Sacandaga, and the rivers that drain the High Peaks.
The Great Chazy River cuts north through the northeastern corner of the Adirondack Park — a long, quiet drainage that eventually crosses into Quebec as the Rivière Chazy. It's a working river more than a destination river: paddlers run the lower sections in spring when water levels cooperate, and local anglers know the access points by dirt road and bridge crossing rather than trailhead. The upper reaches near Lyon Mountain see occasional brook trout; the middle and lower sections warm considerably by midsummer. If you're looking for solitude and don't need a lean-to or a marked put-in, the Great Chazy delivers — just bring a county map and a tolerance for farm roads.
