Adirondacks camping

[tlhdoc]

We have never been to the Adirondacks and would like to find a nice State campground on a lake for some good touring kayaking. Any ideas out there. I haven't been on the board in a very long time. Hi again to all. Thanks,
PI

PI I missed this post when you first made it.  How are you doing.  I sure hope you guys will come and camp with us again.

[PI]

PI I missed this post when you first made it.  How are you doing.  I sure hope you guys will come and camp with us again.

We are doing well thank you. I did email you --a little note.
It is nice to be back as I haven't been on PUT in a while. Maybe we can meet up somewhere this summer again. We do have a good time with you guys.
PI

[Sue&Rick]

Hi Gary
I have camped there many times. It offers a variety of paddleing types. Small ponds with short portages or a long paddle on the Saranac Lakes. Rollins Pond is an overflow campground for the larger DEC campgroud of Fish Creek. Beutiful area. If you like to hike there is a small mountain called Ampersand that has great views of the whole area. Blackflies could be a problem
Rick

[garym053]

Hi Rick,
Thanks for the info. We like to paddle a lot, but also like hiking. Figured that Black Flies would be a problem, they usually are no matter where we go! Maybe they all drowned in all the rain!

[mbopp]

Black flies can be a major problem. The rule of thumb is that they're gone by the July 4th weekend.

The semi-shakedown for the HTT is this weekend. We're taking it to one of the Scout camps for a volunteer work weekend. I'll give a black fly report when I get back!

[garym053]

Black Flies were a big problem! I would not go back in May or June again!

Rollins Pond was a very nice campground. There is some privcy between sites. (Fish Creek Campground resembled a trailer park/tent city. Sites are very close, I would not camp there.) The showers were clean, free, and hot! The bathrooms, were clean and plentiful, although the one closest to us did not have a working faucet in the sink.

There is so much paddling to do in the area!!! Water everywhere! Unfortunately, not much wildlife. We saw two Loons, including one that was sitting on the nest. (In VT they would have had warning signs around the nest so you wouldn't accidently disturb it!), we saw several Ducks and a pair of Geese. Pretty disappointing actually! (We're used to paddling Umbagog Lake in NH and seeing Moose, Eagles, Osprey, Loon, almost daily while we're there.)

Gas up in Tupper Lake or Saranac Lake before you get there as it's 30 miles RT to the nearest Gas Station! Wood is NOT sold at the Camp ground. They said Vendors would come through selling wood, but we finally ended up driving the 30 miles for gas and stopping to buy wood. The peron selling the wood said that they guy who had sold the wood in the park last year said he wasn't going to do it again. There is a private campground about 1/4 to 1/2 mile South of Fish Creek entrance that opened up on Saturday and had wood, water, etc.

To sum it up: Am I gald I went- Yes. Will I go back- Probably Not, It's about a 5 hour drive for us, and I want to see more wildlife!

[kathybrj]

Jut not as many moose here as in VT and NH! When we were at Fish Creek last summer, we saw mostly water fowl. Eagles here are more at Blue Mountain Lake (goldens) and bald headed eagles at the upper end of the Sacandaga.

We camped Moreau Memorial Day weekend. We had mosquitoes but no black flies.

[skcin]

Good to hear that people like Cranberry.  We're going there for the first time this weekend.

I'm new here, btw.  We just bought a '98 Jayco PU.  I'm so glad I found what seems to be a great place for advice, recommendations & good conversation.  

[skcin]

Well, Cranberry Lake SP was just as great as everyone said.  We will definitely go back.  The water was gorgeous, and so much to do!!!  We hiked up Mt. Arab & climbed the fire tower, then checked out 7 waterfalls along the Grasse River.  The last day, we hiked Bear Mountain.  Awesome, absolutely awesome.    If you canoe, kayak, fish, etc. this place is perfect.

Bathrooms were very clean, showers were hot & had private stalls.  Saw several deer, tons of birds (including woodpeckers) and frogs.  Less wildlife than I expected, though.  The sites in our loop were very private, but I noticed that others are closer together.  I would defnitely try to get a waterfront site next time - we could see the water through the trees from our site, but there were several others that wer directly on the water - I have them circled on the camp map for the next trip.