Boating at Fish Creek Pond

Fish Creek Pond is a canoeist/boaters paradise. Whether you bring a canoe, kayak or motor boat, you'll be sure to have plenty of waterways directly accessible from your campsite waterfront including one of the Adirondacks best boating lakes, Upper Saranac Lake!

Canoes and Kayaks can be rented from Hickoks Livery as well as small aluminum boats, located just outside the park on Route 30. They can deliver right to your campsite if so desired! They can be reached at 518-891-3328. Click HERE for their 2007 rental sheet.

Canoes can also be rented from MAC's Canoe Livery in Lake Clear, just north of the campground. Vist them at http://www.macscanoe.com/

A truck also passes through the park with canoes for rent each day.

There are several routes through interconnected ponds and creeks (some involve short portages) for canoeing.

For the boater, you can boat on the main ponds at Fish Creek (no motor boats are allowed at Rollins Pond), as well as the vast Upper Saranac Lake, home to many of the Adirondack Great Camps. Personal watercraft are allowed on the ponds at Fish Creek as well

    A fine boat launch can be found within the park across from site 33

Don't forget that you are not allowed to park your boat and trailer at the boat launch other than to launch your boat or pick it up.

    Campers at Fish Creek are quite skilled at building their own docks at their campsites for their boats

    Canoes, kayaks,  motor boats and personal watercraft all share the 3 main ponds that make up 'Fish Creek Ponds'

Kayaks and canoes usually head up from there into the connecting streams and ponds  where motorized boats are prohibited.

Boaters and waterskiers can head out the connecting waterways to the large open waters of Upper Saranac Lake.

The 3 ponds that make up 'Fish Creek' generally see heavy motorized traffic in the summer months (July/August). Many boaters will be seen out enjoying water skiing, wakerboarding, knee boarding and off course tubing. The ponds tend to be only quiet in the off season (Apr-late June and September on).