GAME AND FISH HESOSTS. II3 



Champlain. The route from Westport via Elizabethtown is the 

 shortest from Lake Champlain to the Saranac Region. 



Seventh. — From Little Falls and Herkimer, stations on the New 

 York Central Railroad, good wagon roads to Round, Pleasant and 

 Piseco Lakes, the distance to the latter being fifty miles. 



Eighth. — Via the Adirondack Railroad to Riverside or North 

 Creek, whence stage and boat communication extends to Blue 

 Mountain Lake, Schroon Lake and other points. 



Trenton Falls and Prospect, stations on the Black River Rail- 

 road, with good hotels, are excellent initial points for those who 

 do not wish to penetrate far into the wilds. Within short distances 

 and accessible by good roads, or well known routes, are Giles 

 Beecraft's and Ed. Wilkinson's sporting houses, which are head- 

 quarters for the shooting and iishing of the region. Boarding 

 accommodations, with guides, etc., are to be had there. The prin- 

 cipal deer hunting and trout fishing resorts reached from Trenton 

 Falls and Prospect are Canada and Metcalf Creeks, Snag, Little 

 Rock, Little Bear, Twin Rock, Big Rock, Pine, G., Morehouse, 

 Joe's, and North Reservoir and South Reservoir Lakes. 



Alder Creek Station, on the Black River Railroad, is a start- 

 ing point for. White Lake, the Woodhull Chain, Chub, and Bisby 

 Lakes, Moose River and the Old Forge, all of which are localities 

 more or less famed for their sporting resources. 



Boohville (see above) has good hotels, the Hurlburt House being 

 famous among Adirondack visitors for its comfortable accommo- 

 dations and excellent fare. At the village stores all needed outfit 

 for a life in the woods may be procured. Nick's Lake, the Indian 

 Spring Hole and numerous other resorts in the vicinity of Arnold's, 

 well known to the guides, furnish abundant reward for the sports- 

 man and angler. The Old Forge has a well kept hostelry, with 

 all facilities for sportsmen. 



By going aside from the main route from Boonville to Racquette 

 Lake, excursior;s may be made via First Lake to Little Moose Lake, 

 famous for the abundance and flavor of its trout, and to the South 

 Branch of Moose River ; via Fourth Lake to Big Moose Lake, where 

 can be found the best June trouting in the woods, with excellent 

 deer shooting, and to Moose and Cascade Lakes, noted for their 

 fishing. At Fifth and Sixth Lakes deer are to be found. From 

 Eighth Lake, water communication is had with Eagle Lakes and 

 innumerable smaller lakes lying in the surrounding forest, all of 

 which afford the best of shooting and angling. 



Lowville (see above) has hotels where sportsmen will find com- 

 fortable quarters. Number Four may be reached by two routes from 

 this point. The Fenton House at No. 4, is much resorted to by 

 Adirondack visitors. This angler's home accommodates fifty peo- 

 ple. It is pleasantly situated on a plateau surrounded at first by 

 valleys, and beyond by long ranges of mountains, which are seen 



