Every named stream in the Adirondack Park — the feeder waters that line the High Peaks valleys and fill the ponds.
Second Pond Brook runs somewhere in the Indian Lake township — one of those named tributaries that shows up on the DEC gazetteer but carries no public trailhead, no angling pressure, and no regional lore worth repeating. The name suggests it drains a pond higher in the drainage, but without survey data or a documented put-in, it remains in that broad class of Adirondack streams that exist on paper more than in practice. If you're poking around the Indian Lake backcountry with a topo map and a taste for bushwhacking, it's there — but so are a hundred other unnamed feeder creeks with equally thin resumes.
Straight Brook drains a quiet watershed in the Indian Lake town grid — a named stream with no recreation profile, no stocked fish, and no trailhead parking lot to announce it. The name suggests either surveyor's geometry or a stretch of water that runs straight through softwood flats before bending into the Cedar River or one of its tributaries. These are the waters that fill the gaps between the famous ponds — they move snowmelt in April, hold wild brookies in the shaded pools, and see more moose than anglers. If you're bushwhacking or looking at the DEC quad sheets, Straight Brook is a landmark; if you're planning a weekend, it's not the destination.
