The 2.5 mile Indian Lake Trail from the Kane Mountain Parking Area takes you past Stewart Lake to Indian Lake. A nice quiet trail often done in combination with hiking up the Kane Mountain Firetower.

The first wilderness part of the Northville Placid Trail is remarkably steep for this part of Adirondacks, climbing 700 feet over a ridge on the first mile, then dropping down 100 feet to Mud Lake over a half mile, then over the next four miles you lose about 550 feet elevation until you reach West Stoney Creek and the lean-to.

https://andyarthur.org/shaker-mountain

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