Every named stream in the Adirondack Park — the feeder waters that line the High Peaks valleys and fill the ponds.
Efner Lake Brook drains into the Great Sacandaga Lake system — a named tributary in a reservoir watershed that reshaped the southern Adirondacks when the Sacandaga was dammed in 1930. The stream itself holds no documented fishery data and sits outside the High Peaks or Wild Forest corridor that draws most backcountry traffic, which typically means private land touches or limited public access. In this part of the Park, streams like Efner Lake Brook are often best understood as hydrological landmarks — named on the map, functional in the watershed, but not necessarily walk-up destinations. Check the DEC's public access atlas if you're targeting tributaries in the Sacandaga drainage.
Elphee Creek threads through the southern Adirondacks near Great Sacandaga Lake — one of the hundreds of small tributaries that drain into the reservoir system, most of them unmapped for fish and accessed only by local knowledge or bushwhack. The stream likely sees occasional brook trout in spring flows, but without DEC survey data it's a guess. No formal trails, no maintained access — this is the kind of water that shows up on USGS quads and in county tax parcel descriptions more than in fishing reports. If you're looking for named creeks with documented fish and public easements, focus upstream toward the West Branch Sacandaga or the main stem tributaries above the lake.
