My favorite is Lake Eaton, just 2 miles outside of the hamlet of Longle Lake. Ive been there almost evry year since 1993.
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What is your favorite car camping location in the dacks?
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I have a pet peeve about campgrounds that are located close enough to the road that the sound of traffic competes with the owls and loons at night. By that parameter, some of the worst are Lincoln Pond, Wilmington Notch, Meadowbrook, Lewey Lake, Fish Creek Ponds and the facilities on Piseco Lake. Some of the best in this regard are Putnam Pond, Nick's Lake, Brown Tract Ponds, Buck Pond, Rollins Pond and Cranberry Lake. All of these also offer at least some sites that are well-forested and relatively private.
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Putnam Pond, (Putt's Pond to the natives, like my wife) outside Ticonderoga, is my favorite. I've had some very enjoyable stays there with my non- backpacking sister and daughter -did a little hiking, a little kayaking, and a little campsite cooking over a coleman stove, where the main ingredients came from Oscar's, in Warrensburg. Some great memories.
I like Paradox Lake, too.
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For car camping my choices would be
Fish Creek or Rollins Pond definately (they share the same location). Rollins if you want a bit more space between campsites and a quieter experience. Fish Creek is one of the more 'active' state parks in ADK land. No motor boats are allowed at Rollins.
Fish Creek is hard to beat, especially if you bring a canoe or kayak. If you are bringing a motor boat, you have direct access up into Upper Saranac Lake from your site as well, which in our opinion is one of the best larger lakes in the ADK's. Most sites are on the water also.
Fish Creek/Rollins are well located as well for hiking in the high peaks, visiting Lake Placid, Paul Smiths, the ADK museum, the new Wild Center in Tupper Lake...
We stopped in to check out most ADK state parks from the Canadian border to Old Forge, but have only chosen to stay at Fish Creek and Nick's Lake.
Cranberry, Nick's, and Eaton have some water sites which are nice, but really hard to get them.
One we won't return to is Moffitt Beach. The washroom facility is horrid!!
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Nick`s Lake is quite wild given that it is not far from Old Forge. Best loops are D and E, have to book well inadvance to get them. No motor boats on the lake keep things quiet and the last sevearl years there has been a nesting pair of oeprey. Last year they were in a white pine right near the ady use area and made for some fine observing. It is stocked with trout and some decent ones can be caught offshore in spring.
Lake Eaton is great. The view of Owlshead Mtn from the beach can`t be beat. Again, plan early or it will be booked. Clear water that is shallow around the whole lake makes for some great swimming.
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Mine is the night, with all her stars.
- Edward Young, Paraphrase on Job (l. 147)Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring
comes and the grass grows by itself.
Zen Proverb
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I have one goal when camping in the Adirondacks- listening to loons and coyotes and not passing logging trucks or crazed jet-skiers. Few state campgrounds allow this experience given their highway locations. However, Brown Tract Pond and Putnam Pond come pretty close. Thus, my desire for out of the way places in the moose River Plains, Floodwood rd., etc. Lake Eaton is in an ideal location andhas a pretty lake, but Rt. 30 traffic, motorboats, etc. just ruin it for me.
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