St. Lawrence County

St. Lawrence County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 111,944.[1] The county seat is Canton.

Saint Lawrence County is home to St. Lawrence University, State University of New York at Potsdam, Clarkson University, the SUNY-ESF Ranger School, and the State University of New York at Canton. Part of the County is in the Adirondack Park and includes much of the Oswegatchie River, Cranberry Lake and Lake Ozonia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_County,_New_York

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.

Lows Ledge

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Now we are almost up to the portage for Lows Upper Dam. Quite purty I must say.

Taken on Friday August 13, 2010 at Bog River Flow.

Lows Ledge

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Here is Lows Ledge reflecting into Hitchins Pond. It's much larger in person then it appears in this picture, unless you have a very big computer monitor.

Taken on Friday August 13, 2010 at Hitchens Pond.