BirdTrout
Ferris Lake Wild Forest, New York
160,394 acres of public ground, managed by State conservation department. 56 named streams run through it, of which 43 are designated trout water — 346.7 miles of it. It is in the state's huntable-land layer.
Open in BirdTrout50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. The colour is NYSDEC's own classification of the stream, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water NYSDEC has not typed.
The unit in numbers
Assembled from the state huntable public-land layer and PAD-US ownership records, dissolved into one block: the section lines a state forest is surveyed in are not a fact about access, so they are not drawn and not counted twice.
Getting on it
PAD-US carries no access class for this unit. It is in the state's huntable layer, which is why it is here; what else you may do on it is the managing agency's to say.
This unit is 52 separate blocks of ground rather than one, which is normal for public land held in surveyed sections: the blocks are not contiguous. The map above draws every one of them, and the ground between two of them belongs to somebody else.
Trout streams on this ground
Every named stream whose reaches touch this unit, longest first. 7 of them have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is NYSDEC's designation of that stream, over the reaches it has classified. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.
| Stream | Miles | Class | Now | Designation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Canada Creek | 81.1 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source, Class AA — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| West Branch Sacandaga River | 39.1 | Cold | — | Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| East Canada Creek | 38.1 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Black Creek | 35.7 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source, Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| Mill Creek | 31.2 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source, Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| Caroga Creek | 25.6 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| North Creek | 22.5 | Cold | — | Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| Spruce Creek | 21.0 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| South Branch West Canada Creek | 19.7 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Sprite Creek | 19.7 | Cold | — | Class AA — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Middle Sprite Creek | 14.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Piseco Outlet | 12.4 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Fourmile Brook | 11.8 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| North Branch Mill Creek | 10.6 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Trammel Creek | 9.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Hurricane Brook | 9.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Mounts Creek | 9.2 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Vly Brook | 8.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Ash Creek | 8.8 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Stony Brook | 8.5 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| Little York Stream | 7.9 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Ayers Creek | 6.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Jones Creek | 6.6 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source |
| Hart Vly Stream | 6.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Panther Mountain Stream | 6.2 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| Shanty Brook | 6.2 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Alder Brook | 5.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Goldmine Stream | 5.4 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Mad Tom Brook | 5.4 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| Moose Creek | 5.4 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| West Branch East Canada Creek | 5.4 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Murphy Brook | 5.3 | Cold | — | Class AA — drinking water source |
| Brayhouse Brook | 5.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Windfall Creek | 4.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Buck Creek | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Limestone Creek | 4.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Black Cat Outlet | 4.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Hurrell Brook | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Sand Lake Outlet | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Twin Lakes Outlet | 3.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Klock Creek | 3.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Sheriff Lake Outlet | 3.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Glasgow Creek | 3.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Jockeybush Outlet | 2.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Teeter Creek | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| L-D Pond Outlet | 2.8 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| North Vly | 2.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Brandy Brook | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Wilder Brook | 2.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Long Lake Outlet | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| G Lake Outlet | 2.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Wagoner Brook | 2.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Twomile Brook | 2.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Long Vly Brook | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Roaring Brook | 1.7 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| State Brook | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
The miles are the whole stream's, not the miles inside this boundary: a river does not stop at a property line and neither does its page.
Hunting
This ground is in New York's huntable public-land layer, managed by State conservation department — 100% of the unit is covered by it. This app does not carry New York's season dates yet, so there are none printed below — NYSDEC publishes them, and that digest is what to check before you go. That the ground is huntable and that a season is open on it are two different facts, and only the first one is on this page.
Access sites and amenities
No public access site we have on record stands on this unit. We hold no trail or campground data at all, so what is here is what the state publishes as launches and walk-in access, and none of it falls on this ground.
Regulations
Nothing on this page is a regulation. The fishing rules that apply to the water on this ground — the types, the seasons, the size limits and the gear restrictions — are on the New York fishing regulations page, built from the agency's own columns.
Watersheds it lies in
The subbasins this ground drains into. Each one has the whole basin's water on it.
Public land nearby
The nearest other blocks of public ground, centre to centre. Public land does not tile a state the way watersheds do, so this is nearness rather than adjacency.