Brasher State Forest

Campers Sign In Here

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They want you to sign in just so they can contact you in an emergency or something. There is no charge, all you have to do is sign in a slip of paper and put it in the campsite box. As you can see, when I was here, about 5 of the sites where occupied.

Taken on Friday August 21, 2009 at Brasher State Forest.

C.C. Dam

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This is the dam on the Redwater Brook which the C.C. Dam Association gets it name after. This dam makes a great place for swimming, for fishing, camping, picnic, or generally having a good time in North Lawrence.

Taken on Thursday August 20, 2009 at Brasher State Forest.

Bombay – Brasher State Forests

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North of the Adirondack Park lays a mixture of farm country and sand plains. Some of the land is fertile and used for dairying and other crop growing, but much of it is pretty shallow and easily damaged by the destructive practices of the iron industry, which burned much of the forests at one point for making iron.

Nowadays much of this land is part of State Forest system set into place when Franklin Roosevelt was Governor of New York, Brasher State Forest (St. Lawrence County; lands to the east) and Bombay State Forest (Franklin County; lands to east). Switch to the OpenStreetMap or USGS Topo DRG layers for more information about the forest or browse the blog in category below for more maps.

It is crossed by two major rivers - the Saint Regis River and Deer River. Camping is a popular activity at Walter Pratt Camping Area, a free-campground on Redwater Pond.

http://history.rays-place.com/ny/brasher-ny.htm

I had a North Country colleague from years ago. They said it was pronounced "bra-ah-shere" or something like that. Not brash-er, as I would call it.