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Featured Adirondack Canoeing/Kayaking Paddling Route

Follensby Clear Pond

Paddling Distance: 3 miles. Access to canoe route via launch sites on Follensby Clear Pond off Route 30 or from Polliwog Pond on Floodwood Road. You won't find an easier "pond-hopping" paddling experience than this one. All the carries are extemely short; you can practically see from lake to lake. Follensby Clear Pond is a beautiful Adirondack pond with numerous campsites found along its shore and on islands. The loop passes through a series of interesting and scenic ponds: Follensby Clear Pond/Polliwog Pond/Horseshoe Pond. To extend your canoe or kayak outing, carry .2 mile to Fish Creek and explore that area. You can also paddle under Route 30 and through Spider Creek Passage into Fish Creek Ponds. From there you can paddle through a passage that leads out into Upper Saranac Lake or you can paddle clockwise through Fish Creek Ponds and then up Fish Creek returning via the .2 mile carry.

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Adirondack Canoeing and Kayaking Routes

In the lush, glacier-carved lakes, rivers and ponds of the Adirondacks, sprawls an impressive array of scenic canoe and kayak routes. Here lies some of the nation's most enjoyably spectacular canoe and kayak water in the 689 lakes and ponds and countless rivers of Adirondack Lake Country. Paddling routes include The Saranac Lake Chain Canoe Route, The St Regis Wilderness Canoe Area, and The Raquette River to Tupper Lake Canoe Route. In addition, the Santa Clara Tract of the Champion Lands offers some of the finest canoe routes in the Adirondacks. It consists of ponds and 3 major rivers, the Deer River, the East Branch of the St Regis River and the Middle Branch of the St Regis River. These provide still water canoe routes, whitewater canoe and kayak routes with water falls and rapids in a nearly pristine boreal wilderness character.

Legendary Adirondack Golf at the Malone Golf Course and the Saranac Inn Golf Club

The 36-hole Malone Golf Course was recognized by Golf Magazine as one of the top courses in New York State. It is a prime location for truly outstanding golf and was designed by Donald Ross and Robert Trent Jones. The Saranac Inn Golf Club was also recognized by Golf Digest as one of four U.S. courses one hundred years or older that received four and a half stars. This par 72 has a reputation for extraordinary maintenance with full automatic irrigation and bent grass greens.

Experience Fishing in Adirondack Lake Country like no other place on earth

12,000 years ago, at the time of the last Adirondack Glacial retreat, extremely cold-tolerant fish species began feeding and thriving at the edge of receding glaciers. The Windfall Brook Trout strain developed as a result of unique environmental conditions found solely in Franklin County, NY's Adirondack Lake Country. Since the turn of the century, the Windfall Brook Trout has been coveted for its tenacious fighting ability, brilliant color and large sizes - some reaching over three pounds and 20 inches. Fishing opportunities abound in the 240 lakes and ponds, nine major rivers and miles of brooks and streams of Adirondack Lake Country.