List of lakes in New York
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Lake
A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...

s in the state of New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 in the United States
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. The list is not exhaustive.
  • Ampersand Lake
  • Avalanche Lake
  • Augur Lake
  • Bass Lake
  • Beaverdam Lake
  • Big Moose Lake
    Big Moose Lake
    -Neighboring towns:*Big Moose, New York*Eagle Bay, New York*Inlet, New York*Old Forge, New York*Thendara, New York-External links:*People v. Gillette...

  • Black Lake
    Black Lake (New York)
    Black Lake is a lake in the northern part of New York in the United States and is the largest lake in Saint Lawrence County. The lake is south of the Saint Lawrence River and parallels the river for many miles....

  • Blue Mountain Lake
    Blue Mountain Lake (New York)
    Blue Mountain Lake is a lake in Hamilton County in the central Adirondacks; Blue Mountain Lake is the eastern end of the Eckford chain of lakes. The hamlet of Blue Mountain Lake lies on its southeastern shore and the Adirondack Museum looks down from high above its eastern shore...

  • Brantingham Lake
    Brantingham Lake
    Brantingham Lake is a lake, within the Adirondack Park, located east of the hamlet Brantingham in Lewis County, New York. Home to both seasonal and year round residents, the lake and surrounding area offer public boating, fishing, hunting, hiking, biking, ATV, horse and snowmobile trails,...

  • Buck Horn Lake
    Buck Horn Lake
    Buck Horn Lake is a small private lake in the Southern Tier region of upstate New York. It is located in the town of Unadilla, approximately northwest of New York City and west of Albany. There are around 35 houses on the lake, most being summer homes and camps. Buck Horn is a man-made lake,...

  • Canadice Lake
    Canadice Lake
    Canadice Lake is one of the minor Finger Lakes of western New York in the USA.Canadice Lake has a shoreline 6.5 miles long and a maximum depth of 95 feet . Because the lake is a water source of Rochester, New York, no houses are permitted on its shore and boats are limited to 16 feet in length...

  • Canaan Lake
    Canaan Lake, New York
    Canaan Lake is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States.- Lake :The hamlet is named after Canaan Lake, a physical lake in the area, that flows into the Canaan River, which leads to the Patchogue River....

  • Canadarago Lake
    Canadarago Lake
    Canadarago Lake is the second largest lake in Otsego County, New York, USA, lying to the west of and parallel to the larger Otsego Lake.The lake's name is also spelled "Candajarago Lake" or "Caniadaraga Lake".- Bordering areas :...

  • Canandaigua Lake
    Canandaigua Lake
    Canandaigua Lake is the fourth largest of the Finger Lakes, in the U.S. state of New York. The city of Canandaigua is located at the northern shore of the lake and the village of Naples is just a few miles south of the southern end...

  • Catlin Lake
  • Cayuga Lake
    Cayuga Lake
    Cayuga Lake   is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area and second largest in volume. It is just under 40 miles long. Its average width is 1.7 miles , and it is at its widest point near Aurora...

  • Cayuta Lake
    Cayuta Lake
    Cayuta Lake is a small lake, located in Schuyler County, New York, USA. The lake is within the Town of Catharine and is linked to the Susquehanna River by Cayuta Creek, which flows out the south end of the lake. A major feeder stream for Cayuta Lake is Cayuta Lake Inlet, which enters the lake...

  • Cazenovia Lake
    Cazenovia Lake
    Cazenovia Lake is a lake in New York, United States. It is located 20 miles from Syracuse, New York. Cazenovia, New York is located southeast of the lake. The lake is roughly 4 miles long and 0.5 mile wide...

  • Chadwick Lake
    Chadwick Lake
    Chadwick Lake is a reservoir supplying water to the Town of Newburgh, in Orange County, New York, United States. It was created by damming Quassaick Creek in 1926. It is located immediately to the northwest of the junction of NY 32 and 300 in the Cronomer Valley section of the town...

  • Chautauqua Lake
    Chautauqua Lake
    Chautauqua Lake is located entirely within Chautauqua County, New York, USA. The lake is approximately long and wide at its greatest width. The surface area is approximately 13,000 acres . The maximum depth is about 78 feet...

  • Chazy Lake
  • Conesus Lake
    Conesus Lake
    Conesus Lake is one of the minor Finger Lakes in western New York. It is western-most of eleven total Finger Lakes. The lake's outlet is in Lakeville, New York a hamlet in the Town of Livonia, New York in Livingston County, south of Rochester, New York. The lake's inlet is in the Town of Conesus,...

  • Cranberry Lake
    Cranberry Lake
    Cranberry Lake is a lake on the Oswegatchie River in the Adirondack Park in New York in the United States. It is the third largest lake in the Adirondack Park Cranberry Lake is a lake on the Oswegatchie River in the Adirondack Park in New York in the United States. It is the third largest lake in...

  • Cross Lake
    Cross Lake
    Cross Lake lies on the border of Cayuga and Onondaga Counties in New York. Cross Lake lies within the boundaries of the traditional Onondaga Indian Nation. The lake is reputed in local tradition to be the boyhood home of Hiawatha, the great peace maker...

  • Delta Lake
  • Duck Lake
  • Eagle Lake
  • Elk Lake
  • Fern Lake
  • Finger Lakes
    Finger Lakes
    The Finger Lakes are a pattern of lakes in the west-central section of Upstate New York in the United States. They are a popular tourist destination. The lakes are long and thin , each oriented roughly on a north-south axis. The two longest, Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake, are among the deepest in...

  • Forked Lake
    Forked Lake
    Forked Lake is a lake in the Adirondack Park in New York, southwest of the village of Long Lake. The lake is slender, and shaped like an inverted "T", across the east-west oriented bottom but only wide, with its northward arm even narrower and long....

  • Fulton Chain Lakes
    Fulton Chain Lakes
    The Fulton Chain Lakes are a string of eight lakes located in the Adirondack Park in upstate New York in the United States of America. These lakes are located in Herkimer County and Hamilton County...

  • Galway Lake
    Galway Lake
    Galway Lake is located west of Galway , New York, in the town of Galway in Saratoga County, New York, USA. .Galway Lake was enlarged by the creation of the Galway Lake Dam on North Chuctanunda Creek in Saratoga County, New York and is used for recreation purposes. Construction of Galway Lake Dam...

  • Garnet Lake
  • Great Sacandaga Lake
    Great Sacandaga Lake
    The Great Sacandaga Lake is a large lake situated in the Adirondack Park in northern New York in the United States. The word Sacandaga means "Land of the Waving Grass" in the local native language. The lake is located in the northern parts of Fulton County and Saratoga County near the south...

  • Green Lake
    Green Lake (New York)
    Green Lake is the larger of the two lakes in Green Lakes State Park, which lies about east of downtown Syracuse in Onondaga County, New York. Round Lake is the smaller lake located west of Green Lake. Both lakes are meromictic, which means that there is no seasonal mixing of surface and bottom...

  • Greenwood Lake
    Greenwood Lake
    Greenwood Lake is an interstate lake approximately seven miles long, straddling the border of New Jersey and New York. It is located in West Milford, New Jersey and Greenwood Lake, New York ....

     (extends into New Jersey
    New Jersey
    New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

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  • Harris Lake
  • Heart Lake
  • Henderson Lake
    Henderson Lake
    Henderson Lake is a lake located on Vancouver Island that drains south into head of Uchucklesit Inlet on the north side of lower Alberni Inlet....

  • Hemlock Lake
    Hemlock Lake
    Hemlock Lake is one of the minor Finger Lakes. It is mostly located in Livingston County, New York, south of Rochester, with a portion overlapping into Ontario County....

  • Hiawatha Lake
    Hiawatha Lake
    Hiawatha Lake is a man-made lake originally created for use of swimming.It is located in Syracuse, New York, in Onondaga Park on the city's South Side along Roberts Avenue. Swimming was stopped because a series of accidental drownings in the 1970s. One side was filled back in and a modern...

  • Honeyoye Lake
  • Indian Lake
    Indian Lake (New York)
    Indian Lake is a long, lake with a southwest to northeast orientation in the towns of Indian Lake and Lake Pleasant in Hamilton County, in the Adirondack Park of New York State, in the United States. The hamlet of Indian Lake is located north of the north end of Indian Lake. New York State...

  • Keuka Lake
    Keuka Lake
    Keuka Lake is an unusual member of New York's Finger Lakes because it is Y-shaped, instead of long and narrow. Because of its shape, it was referred to in the past as Crooked Lake...

  • Kiwassa Lake
  • Lake Bonaparte
  • Lake Champlain
    Lake Champlain
    Lake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada—United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of...

  • Lake Clear
  • Lake Colden
    Lake Colden
    Lake Colden is a lake located in the Adirondack High Peaks in New York, USA. Lake Colden sits at 2764 feet at the western base of 4,714-foot Mount Colden...

  • Lake Edward
  • Lake Flower
    Lake Flower
    Lake Flower is a lake in Franklin County and Essex County in the Adirondacks; it was created by damming the Saranac River in 1827. It was originally called Newell's Pond, but was later named for New York governor Roswell P. Flower. It is the only lake within the village of Saranac Lake. The...

  • Lake George
    Lake George (New York)
    Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake draining northwards into Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River Drainage basin located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York, U.S.A.. It lies within the upper region of the...

  • Lake Gilead
    Lake Gilead
    Lake Gilead is in the lower Hudson River basin. It is located in Carmel Hamlet, New York in Putnam County. It has a surface area of and a mean depth of . It is about deep at its greatest depth....

  • Lake Kanawauke
    Lake Kanawauke
    Lake Kanawauke is a primarily man-made lake in Harriman State Park. The name is Onondaga in origin, and means "place of much water". There are three parts to the lake, lower, middle and upper; the total area is...

  • Lake Kushaqua
  • Lake Lila
    Lake Lila
    Lake Lila is a 1,400 acre Lake in the William C. Whitney Wilderness Area, in the town of Long Lake, in the west-central portion of the Adirondack Park....

  • Lake Louise Marie
  • Lake Madeline
  • Lake Maratanza
    Lake Maratanza
    Lake Maratanza is the highest lake in New York's Shawangunk Ridge at 2,245 feet above sea level. It is within Sam's Point Preserve.The lake is dammed, and supplies drinking water to Ellenville, New York....

  • Lake Oscawana
    Lake Oscawana
    Lake Oscawana is a lake at the heart of Putnam Valley, New York State, United States.The lake has a depth that ranges from to . The lake is fed by a stream from its north end and it drains through a stream at the middle of its eastern shore...

  • Lake Ozonia
    Lake Ozonia
    Lake Ozonia is a lake in the Adirondacks....

  • Lake Peekskill
  • Lake Placid
    Lake Placid (New York)
    The body of water called Lake Placid is in the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York in the USA. The lake is approximately , and has an average depth of about . It is located in the towns of North Elba and St...

  • Lake Pleasant
    Lake Pleasant (lake)
    Lake Pleasant is a lake located in the Adirondack Park in New York in the USA. The lake is in the town of Lake Pleasant in Hamilton County.The lake is about four miles long and about one mile wide with its length oriented in an approximate northeast to southwest direction, with the widest part...

  • Lake Ronkonkoma
  • Lake Sebago
    Lake Sebago
    At , Lake Sebago is the largest lake in Harriman State Park in the U.S. state of New York. The name is Algonquian for "big water". Operated by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, Lake Sebago is surrounded by picnic lawns and play fields, and is popular with anglers fishing for bass, perch...

  • Lake Tappan
    Lake Tappan
    Lake Tappan is a reservoir that was formed by the Tappan Dam placed on the Hackensack River in 1967. It straddles the border between River Vale and Old Tappan, New Jersey...

  • Lake Tear of the Clouds
    Lake Tear of the Clouds
    Lake Tear of the Clouds is a small tarn located in the town of Keene, in Essex County, New York, on the southwest slope of Mount Marcy; it is both the highest lake in the state and the highest source of the Hudson River via Feldspar Brook and the Opalescent River...

  • Lake Tiorati
  • Lake Titus
  • Lake Washington
    Lake Washington (New York)
    Lake Washington is the primary reservoir for the city of Newburgh, New York. It is located just southwest of the city, lying partially within it and the neighboring towns of Newburgh and New Windsor...

  • Lake Welsh
  • Lamoka Lake
    Lamoka Lake
    Lamoka Lake is a small crescent-shaped lake in the western part of New York, USA. The lake is located at the border of Schuyler County and Steuben County. Most of the lake is in Schuyler County with only a small part, called "Mill Pond," at the southwest corner in Steuben County...

  • Lewey Lake
  • Little Tupper Lake
  • Long Lake
    Long Lake (New York)
    Long Lake is a lake in the town of Long Lake in Hamilton County, New York in the United States; the average width is half a mile. It is part of the Raquette River, which flows in a straight, northeast-trending valley. NY 30 crosses at a narrows from the south end where the hamlet of Long Lake is...

  • Loon Lake
    Loon Lake (Warren County, New York)
    Loon Lake is a wishbone-shaped body of water in Warren County, New York. It is located within the Town of Chester, which maintains the beach. Fishing and boating are popular activities. Common fish species within the lake include Pumpkinseed sunfish, Rock bass, Perch, Smallmouth bass, Largemouth...

  • Lower Ausable Lake
  • Lower Chateaugay Lake
  • Lower St. Regis Lake
    Lower St. Regis Lake
    Lower St. Regis Lake is a part of the St. Regis River in the Adirondacks in northern New York State. At its northern edge is Paul Smith's College, former site of Paul Smith's Hotel. Along with Upper St...

  • Lower Saranac Lake
    Lower Saranac Lake
    Lower Saranac Lake is one of three connected lakes, part of the Saranac River, near the village of Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks in northern New York. With Middle Saranac Lake and Upper Saranac Lake, a paddle with only one portage is possible. The Saranac Lake Islands Public Campground provides...

  • Lows Lake
    Lows Lake
    Lows Lake is a reservoir in the Adirondack Park in northeastern New York. It is located in the Five Ponds Wilderness Area, southwest of Tupper Lake. The lake is part of the Bog River Flow. While it is largely surrounded by New York State Forest Preserve, the northeast shore is privately held,...

  • Masten Lake
  • Meacham Lake
  • Middle Saranac Lake
    Middle Saranac Lake
    Middle Saranac Lake, also called Round Lake, is the smallest of three connected lakes, part of the Saranac River, near the village of Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks in northern New York. Two-thirds of its shoreline is state-owned...

  • Mohegan Lake
  • Mountain Lake
    Mountain Lake (New York)
    Mountain Lake is a lake situated in southern Adirondack Park in Bleecker, New York. It is located just east of Great Sacandaga Lake. The lake was called Carpenter's Lake in the 19th century. The lake contains one small island, Elmer Island, located towards the western end. There is a dam on the...

  • Mud Lake
    Mud Lake (New York)
    There are over 30 lakes named Mud Lake within the U.S. state of New York.* Mud Lake, Chautauqua County, New York. * Laurel Lake, also known as Mud Lake, Delaware County, New York. * Mud Lake, Delaware County, New York....

     (There are more than 30 lakes named Mud Lake in New York.)
  • Murphy Lake
    Murphy Lake (Hamilton County, New York)
    Murphy Lake is a lake in Hamilton County, New York, United States. Murphy Lake lies at an elevation of 1473 feet in the Wilcox Lake Wild Forest of the Adirondack Park....

  • Newcomb Lake
  • Notch Lake
    Notch Lake
    Notch Lake is an artificial lake in Edgewood, New York, in the Town of Hunter in the Catskill Mountains. It is located near the Stony Clove Notch, and is located near the edge of the Devil's Tombstone Campsite, bordering New York State Route 214. There is also a parking lot near the shore...

  • Oneida Lake
    Oneida Lake
    Oneida Lake is the largest lake entirely within New York State . The lake is located northeast of Syracuse and near the Great Lakes. It serves as one of the links in the Erie Canal. It empties into the Oneida River which flows into the Oswego River which in turn flows into Lake Ontario...

  • Onondaga Lake
    Onondaga Lake
    Onondaga Lake is a lake in Central New York located northwest of Syracuse, New York. The southeastern end of the lake and the southwestern shore abut industrial areas and expressways; the northeastern shore and northwestern end border a series of parks and museums. Although it is near the Finger...

  • Oseetah Lake
    Oseetah Lake
    Oseetah Lake is a lake in the New York Adirondack State Park two and a half miles south of the village of Saranac Lake on the Saranac River. It is located mostly in the town of Harrietstown, but its easternmost porttion extends into the town of North Elba....

  • Otisco Lake
    Otisco Lake
    Otisco Lake is one of the minor Finger Lakes, located at the eastern end of the Finger Lake District, southwest of Syracuse, New York.Otisco Lake is approximately six miles long. The outflow enters first Onondaga Lake via Nine Mile Creek and then Lake Ontario via the Seneca and Oswego Rivers...

  • Otsego Lake
  • Owasco Lake
    Owasco Lake
    Owasco Lake is the sixth largest and third easternmost of the Finger Lakes of New York in the United States of America . The name Owasco can be roughly translated from a Mohawk and Iroquois term meaning "crossing"....

  • Pleasant Lake
    Pleasant Lake (Stratford, New York)
    Pleasant Lake is a small private lake located in Stratford, Fulton County, New York in the southern Adirondack Park. Camp owners may use motorized watercraft on the lake.-Camps on Pleasant Lake:An example of a recently renovated camp on Pleasant Lake...

  • Ragged Lake
    Ragged Lake
    -References:*...

  • Rainbow Lake
  • Raquette Lake
    Raquette Lake
    Raquette Lake is the source of the Raquette River in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, USA. It is near the community of Raquette Lake, New York. The lake has 99 miles of shoreline with pines and mountains bordering the lake. It is located in the towns of Long Lake and Arietta,...

  • Rich Lake
  • Round Lake
  • Rushford Lake
    Rushford Lake
    Rushford Lake is a small reservoir in the western part of New York, USA. The lake is in the northwest part of Allegany County, New York, mostly in the Town of Rushford, but the eastern part of the lake is in the Town of Caneadea....

  • Schroon Lake
    Schroon, New York
    Schroon is a town in the Adirondack Park, in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,759 at the 2000 census. The town is also known as Schroon Lake, which is actually a centrally located lake, and the name of a hamlet on the lake....

  • Saratoga Lake
  • Seneca Lake
  • Seven Hills Lake
  • Sleepy Hollow Lake
  • Star Lake
  • Silver Lake
    Silver Lake, New York
    Silver Lake, New York may refer to:* Silver Lake, Orange County, New York - a lake in town of Wallkill, New York* Silver Lake, Otsego County, New York - a hamlet in the town of Pittsfield, New York...

  • Skaneateles Lake
    Skaneateles Lake
    Skaneateles Lake is one of the Finger Lakes in central New York in the United States. The name Skaneateles means long lake in one of the local Iroquoian languages. The lake is sometimes referred to as "The Roof Garden of the Lakes" because its altitude is higher than the other Finger Lakes. It...

  • Tomahawk Lake
  • Tonetta Lake
    Tonetta Lake
    Tonetta Lake is a freshwater lake located in the Town of Southeast , NY.Lake Tonetta has the only public beach in Southeast, accessible to town residents and their guests. In addition to offering recreational swim, Tonetta Lake conducts swimming lessons with trained lifeguards and water safety...

  • Trout Lake
  • Tupper Lake
    Tupper Lake (New York)
    Tupper Lake is a lake in New York in the USA. The lake is in the Adirondack Park and crosses the county lines of St. Lawrence County and Franklin County....

  • Upper Ausable Lake
  • Upper Chateaugay Lake
  • Upper St. Regis Lake
    Upper St. Regis Lake
    Upper St. Regis Lake is a part of the St. Regis River in the Adirondacks in northern New York State. Along with Lower St. Regis Lake and Spitfire Lake, it became famous in the late 19th century as a summer playground of America's power elite, drawn to the area by its scenic beauty and by the...

  • Upper Saranac Lake
    Upper Saranac Lake
    Upper Saranac Lake is one of three connected lakes, part of the Saranac River, in the towns of Santa Clara and Harrietstown, near the village of Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks in northern New York. Upper Saranac Lake is the sixth largest lake in the Adirondacks. With Middle Saranac Lake and...

  • Utowana Lake
  • Wanaksink Lake
  • White Lake
    White Lake, New York
    White Lake is an unincorporated hamlet in the town of Bethel, Sullivan County, New York on the southeast shore of a lake of the same name. It was the closest community to the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969....

  • Wildwood Lake
    Wildwood Lake (New York)
    Wildwood Lake is a natural lake located in Suffolk County on Long Island in Northampton near Riverhead, New York, USA. The lake was formed by glaciers during the last Ice age...

  • Wolf Lake
    Wolf Lake (New York)
    -External links:*...

  • Yankee Lake

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