Every named stream in the Adirondack Park — the feeder waters that line the High Peaks valleys and fill the ponds.
Paintbed Brook runs through the Brant Lake region in the southeastern Adirondacks — a named tributary in the Hudson River watershed, but one without recorded public access or much in the way of documented angling pressure. The name suggests old settlement-era industry (paint pigment derived from iron oxide deposits, common in streambeds across the southern Adirondacks), though no historical records confirm the source. With no species data on file and no formal trails or campsites tied to the stream, this is backcountry water for the land-nav hiker or the angler willing to bushwhack private-land boundaries. Check a topo and ask locally before you go.
Pharaoh Lake Brook drains Pharaoh Lake — the centerpiece of the Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area — and flows roughly southeast toward Brant Lake, threading through the eastern edge of one of the largest roadless tracts in the southern Adirondacks. The brook sees little direct recreational pressure; most traffic stays on the lake itself or the trail network that orbits it. If you're bushwhacking drainage corridors or tracing old logging routes in the Pharaoh wilderness, you'll cross it — cold, tannin-stained, moving quick in spring, nearly silent by August. No fish data on record, but the headwaters suggest wild brook trout habitat upstream.
