Taylor Pond Wild Forest

he Taylor Pond Wild Forest is a discontinuous 43,000-acre (174 km2) tract of state land designated as Wild Forest by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in the northeastern Adirondack Park. The tract covers portions of 13 towns in three counties in the region around Taylor Pond, Silver Lake and Union Falls flow, in the town of Franklin in Franklin County and the town of Black Brook in Clinton County.

Other parts of the Wild Forest are in the towns of Ausable, Peru, and Saranac in Clinton County, and the towns of Chesterfield, Elizabethtown, Essex, Jay, Lewis, St. Armand, Westport and Willsboro in Essex County.

Car camping is available at Taylor Pond campground; Poke-O-Moonshine campground is closed. Catamount, Silver Lake, and Poke-O-Moonshine Mountains are popular destinations for hikers in the Wild Forest. There is camping on Union and Franklin Falls ponds.

Activities supported include hunting, fishing, hiking, biking, boating and paddling, horseback riding, snowmobiling, skiing and snowshoeing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Pond_Wild_Forest

The Beaver Dun It

It didn't take long for the beaver to flood out this bridge, heading up the former Jeep Trail up Pok-o-Moonshine. This trail is only two years old, as a officially designated trail.

Taken on Saturday October 8, 2011 at Pok-O-Moonshine.

Starting Up the Trail

No part of the trail is particularly steep, though there are some moderately steep section on the former Jeep Trail.

Taken on Saturday October 8, 2011 at Pok-O-Moonshine.