Every named stream in the Adirondack Park — the feeder waters that line the High Peaks valleys and fill the ponds.
Wedge Brook is a named tributary in the town of Keene — one of dozens of small streams draining the northeastern High Peaks corridor toward the Ausable watershed. Without designated access or maintained trail crossings, it's the kind of water that appears on the map but rarely in trip reports: a reference point for bushwhackers, a drainage to cross or follow, a line between ridges. If you're off-trail in this drainage, you're likely threading between Giant and the Dix Range, using the brook as a navigational handrail rather than a destination. No stocking records, but the gradient and cold suggest resident brook trout in the deeper pockets upstream.
West Inlet feeds the northwest corner of Raquette Lake from the high country between Stillwater Reservoir and the Upper Works — a drainage corridor running through state Forest Preserve land but bordered by private holdings that keep it off most paddlers' maps. The stream itself is small, rocky, and seasonal in flow, more of a navigational reference point than a destination: if you're paddling the northern bays of Raquette Lake or exploring the shoreline west of South Inlet, West Inlet marks the transition from open water to forested lowlands. No formal trail follows the inlet upstream, and no fish species are documented in state survey records — this is backcountry drainage, not a fishing creek. Best known to paddlers working the perimeter of Raquette Lake or plotting long portage routes between watersheds.
Wolfjaw Brook drains the col between Upper and Lower Wolfjaw Mountains — two of the forty-six High Peaks — and feeds north through a steep, forested valley before meeting Johns Brook near the valley floor. The stream traces the descent route for hikers coming off the Wolfjaws via the Wedge Brook Trail, running cold and fast through moss-covered boulders in early summer, often reduced to a trickle by August. It's working water — drainage, not destination — but it marks the defining saddle between two summits and the sound of it means you're off the ridge and heading back to the Johns Brook Valley. No fishing data on file, but the gradient and substrate suggest native brook trout in the lower, slower sections.
