Sargent Ponds Wild Forest 📍

The 43,532 acre Sargent Ponds Wild Forest is located East of Raquette Lake, north of NY 28 and west of NY 30.

The area is a boreal swamp forest as much of this great spruce-balsam-white cedar tract borders the Raquette River, Marion River and Boulder Brook.

It is home to Forked Lake to the North and Buttermilk Falls, Long Lake to the West, and Owl Heads Firetower to the north.

🗺️ Maps 🖼️ Photos
Thematic Map: Urban Areas

Forked Lake

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This is looking south from the summit towards Forked Lake Campground and possibly Racquette Lake. The mountain in the distance is Wakely Mountain, one of the other fire towers originally used to pin-point fires in the Adirondacks (it takes two towers to locate a fire through triangulation).

Thursday August 12, 2010 — Owls Head Mountain Firetower (Long Lake) — Owls Head Firetower 🗺
Map: Green Mountain National Forest North
Map: Tug Hill State Forest (Inman Gulf Area)

Forked Lake

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Forked Lake is home to both a developed reservation and fee campground (green and white) and a handful of primative free campsites (yellow and black) along the lake. There also is a couple of lean tos along the lake. 
Map: Galen Wildlife Management Area
Thematic Map: Fifty Least Densely Populated Municipalities in NY State