Every named stream in the Adirondack Park — the feeder waters that line the High Peaks valleys and fill the ponds.
Factory Brook threads through the Old Forge settlement corridor — one of those named tributaries that shows up on USGS quads but rarely gets a dedicated trip report. The name hints at 19th-century industrial use, common across the central Adirondacks where small streams powered sawmills and tanneries before the Forest Preserve era. No data on fishery or formal access points, which likely means it's either too small to stock or runs through a patchwork of private land around the hamlet. If you're poking around Old Forge and see a bridge crossing with the name on it, that's Factory Brook — a footnote on the map, not a destination.
Feeder Stream is one of dozens of small tributaries in the Old Forge drainage — a working name on the DEC roster, likely cold enough for wild brookies but without enough angler traffic to generate catch data. Streams like this are the arteries of the Fulton Chain system: they drop out of beaver meadows and spruce pockets, push through culverts under fire roads, and feed the bigger lakes that get all the attention. If you're poking around the Old Forge back roads with a topo map and a 6-foot rod, these are the lines worth following upstream. No guarantees, but that's the point.
Fourmile Brook drains the low country west of Old Forge — a small, unassuming tributary in a region better known for its motorboat lakes and snowmobile corridors than its backcountry streams. The name suggests an old surveyor's reference point or a distance marker from some forgotten landmark, common in the working forest country that defines this corner of the Park. No documented fishery, no formal access trail — this is the kind of water that shows up on a topo map as a blue line threading through private timberland and state forest fragments. If you're on Fourmile Brook, you're either bushwhacking with intent or you took a wrong turn on a logging road.
Fourth Creek runs through the Old Forge township area — one of several small tributary streams in the Moose River drainage, though records on access points and fish populations are thin. The name suggests it's part of a numbered-creek system (likely feeding into a larger flow or pond complex), a common naming convention in working forest country where settlers and surveyors cataloged water by order rather than character. Without established trail access or stocking data, it's backcountry water — the kind of stream you cross on a bushwhack or find by accident when you're already wet to the knees. If you know where Fourth Creek is, you probably already fish it.
