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.

Trailhead Sign

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There is a snowmobile and a separate hiking trail up Owls Head Mountain. I took the hiking trail up, although it looks like per the DEC Land Mapper program, that the snowmobile trail roughly follows it on an old woods road. The snowmobile trail is not visible from the hiking trail in the summertime.

Taken on Thursday August 12, 2010 at Owls Head Mountain Firetower (Long Lake).