Lake Flower
Lake Flower is a 300-acre lake in Franklin County and Essex County in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York in the United States. The lake was created by damming the Saranac River in 1827.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Body of water
- Description: artificial lake in upstate New York
- Also known as: “Newell’s Pond”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Will Rogers Memorial Hospital and Baker Mountain.
Will Rogers Memorial Hospital
Social service facility
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Will Rogers Memorial Hospital is a historic tuberculosis sanatorium located at Saranac Lake in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1928 as the National Vaudeville lodge by the National Vaudeville Artists Association, who previously sent patients to the Kennedy Cottage.
Baker Mountain
Peak
Baker Mountain is a 2,454-foot-tall mountain in Essex County, New York east of Saranac Lake. It is part of the McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area. The trail to the top is about 0.9-miles long; the hike is part of the "Saranac Sixer". Baker Mountain is situated 2 miles northeast of Lake Flower.
Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook
Prison
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The Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook, unofficially called the Olympic Prison, is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates that is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook is situated 2½ miles southeast of Lake Flower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saranac Lake and Ray Brook.
Saranac Lake
Photo: heipei, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Saranac Lake is a village in the Adirondacks in New York state. It lies in the towns of Harrietstown, St. Armand, and North Elba, inside the boundaries of Adirondack State Park.
Ray Brook
Hamlet
Ray Brook is a hamlet in the U.S. state of New York, located on NY 86 between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid in the Town of North Elba in Essex County. It is the site of the Adirondack Park Agency, the District 5 office of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook and the Adirondack Correctional Facility. Ray Brook is situated 2½ miles southeast of Lake Flower.
Harrietstown
Hamlet
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Harrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The total population was 5,254 at the 2020 census, In 2010 3,879 of the town's residents lived in the village of Saranac Lake on the eastern side of the town. Harrietstown is situated 6 miles north of Lake Flower.
Lake Flower
- Category: reservoir
- Location: Franklin, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.31378° or 44° 18′ 50″ northLongitude
-74.12619° or 74° 7′ 34″ westElevation
1,529 feet (466 metres)Open location code
87P78V7F+GGOpenStreetMap ID
way 31491095OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Polish—“Lake Flower” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lake Flower”
- Dutch: “Lake Flower”
- French: “lac Flower”
- French: “Lac Flower”
- Italian: “lago Flower”
- Italian: “Lago Flower”
- Japanese: “フラワー湖”
- Polish: “Lake Flower”
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