Stewart’s Landing Dam and Water Level – Canadalakesconservation.com
Stewart Landing
Campfire
Camping Up at Stewart Landing
This was my campsite up on Stewart Landing on a rainy Mothers Day, before I took it down. Saturday was beautiful, but I only recorded on Sunday.
Wilderness
I often think many areas they call wilderness areas aren’t true wilderness. On the other hand, areas not called wilderness can be very much true wilderness.
I spent four or five hours hiking today back to Hilderbrandt Vly and Glasgow Lake and did not see another person. The snowmobile trail while soft and flooded in many low lying areas contains little evidence of overuse, indeed I suspect these lakes are little visited except by snowmobilers and a handful of hunters and fishermen. If anything Glasgow Lake shows the signs of the most use of the area but at least while I was there I didn’t see a single other person.
Hinkley Reservior
This hillshade terrian map shows the terrian around the Hinckley Reservior in the Southern Adirondacks, north-east of Rome.
Long dammed but still special – – The Adirondack Almanack
With the water down for the winter, it’s easy to imagine the channel as the Mohawks of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy once saw it. Though the current dam on Stewarts Landing determines the summer level of the water, the top of the upstream rapids appearing when the level goes down is the determining factor for the winter level. This waterway was suitable for canoeing long before any dams were constructed.
What we call Stewarts Landing is the 2 mile stretch of flat water carrying the outflow of Canada and Lily Lakes to a concrete dam. Once called Fish Creek, the stream through and below Stewarts Landing is currently known as Sprite Creek. Below the dam, the unnavigable rocky stream flows into East Canada Creek, which joins the Mohawk and then Hudson Rivers.
Stewart Landing Campsites.
Stewart Landing Campsites !
The Stewart Landing Campsites are tucked on a rough and often muddy dirt road, a little ways back from Stewart Landing.
They aren’t fancy, some of them are a bit closer together then I would like, so I doubt I’d camp there during the holidays or even the summer season.
But still they’re not a bad place to be, especially if your planning on doing some hiking or paddling on West Canada Lake.
And in the spring when I was there, it was pretty quiet.
But I’m sure on a nice day like this one there would be a lot more people up there.
