Moose River Plains 📍

Spanning Herkimer and Hamilton Counties, the Moose River Plains Wild Forest offers an array of activities, including camping, hiking, mountain biking, fishing, hunting, and canoeing. Free campsites are accessible from late May to December’s end. Winter highlights snowmobiling along the Limekiln Lake-Cedar River Road linking Inlet and Indian Lake. Must-visit spots encompass Cedar River Flow, Moose-spotting at Helldiver Pond, scenic Wakely Mountain with its firetower, as well as numerous smaller ponds and lesser-known trails. This diverse landscape caters to a range of outdoor pursuits, making it a year-round destination for nature enthusiasts and adventurers.

🗺️ Maps 🖼️ Photos

Indian Lake

Andy | April 11, 2026

Map: Black Pond Wildlife Management Area

Wakely Mountain Firetower Views

Andy | April 8, 2026

This map gives an overview of mountains and lakes that are visible (and not visible) from Wakely Mountain Firetower. I'm new at doing visibility analysis so it's possible that I don't have the visibility completely correct, but it's an interesting experiment.

The section of Cedar River – Limekiln Lake Road along the Silver River didn’t used to exist

Andy | April 3, 2026

There was no connection between Cellar Mountain Road and Moose River Road along the Silver River until the Conservation Department built the connection in the late 1950s before acquiring the lands due to the parcels being owned by different companies.

Map: Mountain House Trail and North Mountain

Sly Pond

Andy | March 31, 2026

The remote Sly Pond is one of the highest bodies of water in Adirondack Park at an elevation of 2,872 feet. It was once infamous for being a marker of how acidic Adirondack lakes had become by the eighties, with the DEC recording in 1980 the pond having an acidity of 3.54 which is about as "acidic as a dill pickle".

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/05/10/Acid-rain-damages-are-reported-in-Northeast-Canada-Far-WestNEWLNNew-York-suit-tries-to-prove-source-was-Midwest-plants/1857358315200/