Every named stream in the Adirondack Park — the feeder waters that line the High Peaks valleys and fill the ponds.
Hour Pond Brook drains the small wetland complex north of Indian Lake village — a tributary system that feeds into the Cedar River Flow before its confluence with the Hudson. The name suggests an old surveyor's or trapper's reference point, though no formal record explains the hour in question. These mid-elevation feeder streams through mixed hardwood and spruce hold native brookies in the spring melt and early summer, but by late July most of the flow retreats to isolated pools under blowdown and alder thickets. No maintained trail follows the brook; if you're here, you're either bushwhacking down from a ridgeline or working your way upstream from the Cedar River drainage with a topo and a tolerance for wet boots.
