Every named river in the Adirondack Park — the Hudson, the Moose, the Raquette, the Sacandaga, and the rivers that drain the High Peaks.
The Hudson River in the Long Lake region marks the upper, wildest section of New York's longest river — a narrow, boulder-strewn corridor winding through remote forest between Indian Lake and the hamlet of Newcomb. This isn't the navigable Hudson of the lower valley: it's a backcountry stream, crossable on foot in dry summers, accessible primarily via logging roads and unmarked bushwhacks. The river braids through alder thickets and beaver meadows, occasionally pooling into deep runs where brook trout hold in the shade. No maintained put-ins, no trail signage — just topographic literacy and a tolerance for wet boots.
