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High Peaks Wilderness, New York

275,300 acres of public ground, managed by State conservation department. 99 named streams run through it, of which 77 are designated trout water — 474.1 miles of it. It is in the state's huntable-land layer.

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This unit — the ground this page is about

Other public land — state, federal and county ground around it

USGS gauge — a gauge, coloured by what it reads now

Water temperature — the colour of every stream on this ground

50°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.

275,300 ac

public ground

430.2 square miles · 25 separate blocks

State conservation department

managing agency

None land

named streams on it

892.6 miles · 77 designated trout

Access not recorded

public access

as recorded in the ownership file

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 25 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
Raquette River	158.1	Cold	—	Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Hudson River	90.6	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Saranac River	82.6	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
West Branch Ausable River	40.7	Cold	—	Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Cold Brook	29.1	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Boreas River	27.3	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Moose Creek	24.8	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Chubb River	17.8	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Cold River	17.5	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Opalescent River	17.1	Cold	—	Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Beaver Brook	16.2	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Black Brook	15.1	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Marcy Brook	12.1	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Pine Brook	11.9	untyped	—	—
Sucker Brook	11.8	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Ampersand Brook	10.8	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Indian Pass Brook	9.6	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Roaring Brook	9.4	untyped	—	—
Boulder Brook	8.8	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
East Branch Cold Brook	8.7	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Johns Brook	8.7	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Calkins Brook	8.6	untyped	—	—
Cascade Brook	8.4	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Santanoni Brook	8.4	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
North Fork Boquet River	8.1	untyped	—	—
Phelps Brook	7.4	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
West Mill Brook	7.4	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Niagara Brook	7.2	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
South Meadow Brook	6.7	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
North Meadow Brook	6.5	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Newcomb River	6.2	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Skylight Brook	6.2	Cold	—	Class A — drinking water source
South Fork Boquet River	5.8	untyped	—	—
Ward Brook	5.7	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
East Inlet	5.5	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Lindsey Brook	5.5	untyped	—	—
Halfway Brook	5.4	untyped	—	—
Perch Brook	5.1	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Beede Brook	5.0	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Calahan Brook	4.8	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
LeClaire Brook	4.8	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Calamity Brook	4.7	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Indian Pass Brook	4.4	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Crystal Brook	4.3	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Wolf Pond Outlet	4.3	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Slide Brook	3.9	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
White Lily Brook	3.9	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Flag Brook	3.8	untyped	—	—
Gill Brook	3.8	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
West Inlet	3.8	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Upper Twin Brook	3.7	Cold	—	Class A — drinking water source
Ermine Brook	3.6	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Klondike Brook	3.6	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Walton Brook	3.5	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Seward Brook	3.3	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Shanty Brook	3.3	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Porter Brook	3.2	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
McKenna Brook	3.1	untyped	—	—
Bear Brook	3.0	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Cold Brook	3.0	untyped	—	—
Slide Brook	3.0	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Deer Brook	2.8	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
MacIntyre Brook	2.7	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Walker Brook	2.7	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Walter Coon Brook	2.6	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Ore Bed Brook	2.5	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Hull Basin Brook	2.4	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Sand Brook	2.4	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Casey Brook	2.3	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Little Sucker Brook	2.3	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Snyder Brook	2.3	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Dutton Brook	2.1	untyped	—	—
Haystack Brook	2.1	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Lower Twin Brook	2.1	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Flume Brook	2.0	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Lillian Brook	1.9	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Pelkey Brook	1.8	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Uphill Brook	1.7	untyped	—	—
Big Sally Brook	1.5	Cold	—	Class C — fishing
Moss Pond Brook	1.5	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Rooster Comb Brook	1.5	untyped	—	—
Wolfjaw Brook	1.5	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Pyramid Brook	1.4	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Gravestone Brook	1.3	untyped	—	—
Icy Brook	1.3	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Slide Mountain Brook	1.3	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Virginia Brook	1.3	untyped	—	—
Rock Cut Brook	1.2	untyped	—	—
Bennies Brook	1.1	untyped	—	—
Chicken Coop Brook	1.1	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Feldspar Brook	1.1	untyped	—	—
Herbert Brook	1.0	untyped	—	—
Wedge Brook	1.0	untyped	—	—
Hogback Brook	0.9	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Cedar Brook	0.8	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Allen Brook	0.7	untyped	—	—
Basin Brook	0.7	untyped	—	—
Dry Brook	0.6	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source
Teakettle Brook	0.5	Cold	—	Class AA — drinking water source

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.