The Taylor Pond Wild Forest is a discontinuous 53,280-acre area consisting of tracts of state land and easement land spread over a 567 square mile area designated as Wild Forest by the

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in the northeastern

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. The area comprises * 45,637 acres of Adirondack Forest Preserve lands in 26 separate parcels classified as Wild Forest * 6,314 acres of State Forest lands in the 2,752-acre Terry Mountain State Forest and the 1,575-acre Burnt Hill State Forest * 23,067 acres of conservation easement lands with public recreational rights in the 15,713-acre Black Brook Easement Tract, 3,748-acre Franklin Falls Easement Tract, and the 794-acre Shell Rock Easement Tract. The tract covers portions of 13 towns in three counties in the region around Taylor Pond,

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and Union Falls flow, in the town of

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in Franklin County and the town of Black Brook in

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. The forest is home to the Catamount Mountain Trail, a four-mile round trip trail with parking on nearby Forestdale Road. The forest also contains the Silver Lake Mountains. Other parts of the Wild Forest are in the towns of

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, and Saranac in Clinton County, and the towns of

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, Elizabethtown,

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, St. Armand, Westport and Willsboro in Essex County. Car camping is available at Taylor Pond campground along with a few boat-in sites; Poke-O-Moonshine campground is closed. Catamount, Silver Lake, and

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s are popular destinations for hikers in the Wild Forest. There is camping on Union and

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ponds. Activities supported include hunting, fishing, hiking, biking, boating and paddling, horseback riding, snowmobiling, skiing and snowshoeing. Because the private land is under conservation easement, visitors have described the area as "less crowded" and a "wilderness."

External links

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation - Adirondack Park - Land Units Map

References

{{Protected areas of New York Adirondack Park Protected areas of Franklin County, New York Protected areas of Clinton County, New York Protected areas of Essex County, New York Forests of New York (state)

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