Long Lake

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The Long Lake located in the central Adirondacks of New York is a natural lake. Geologically speaking, it is not a standalone basin, but rather a 14-mile-long glacial widening of the Raquette River. It flows along a natural, northeast-trending fault line that was scoured and widened by the Laurentide Glacier approximately 14,800 years ago. Because it is essentially a highly enlarged, slow-moving section of the river, it remains relatively shallow despite being surrounded by high mountain peaks.
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Trees Along the West Branch

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Monday May 30, 2011 — Piseco-Powley Road — Big Alderbed Lake Trail 🗺 — Clockmill Corners to NY 10 🗺 — Goldmine Stream Falls 🗺 — House Pond Trail 🗺 — Lower Powley Bridge to Sugarbush Mountain 🗺 — Meco Lake Trail (Piseco-Powley Road) 🗺 — Overview Map Piseco-Powley Road 🗺 — Powley Place - East Canada Creek - Kayak Canoe 🗺 — Sand Lake 🗺 — Sand Lake Trail 🗺 — Sugarbush Mountain to Clockmill Corners 🗺
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Lake Durant – A place I’m thinking of camping in the autumn

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There are two free, primitive campsites located on Old Route 8 & 30, an old routing of the highway just south of Blue Mountain Lake on Lake Durant. On the western shore of the lake, they are a ways from the craziness of campground, and far enough off NY 30 to avoid some of the noise and craziness of that area.

Lake Durant

If you didn’t have a map, you might not know these two campsites exist on this rough, mostly now gravel and dirt surface of old state highway.

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There are two campsites, this upper one, while primative and well picked over for firewood, looks like it would be a delight off season. Cell service too if I can remember right, which is good for remote work.

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A rainy, quiet fall afternoon on Lake Durant.

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