Raquette Lake

Raquette Lake is a lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. The source of the Raquette River, it is near the community of Raquette Lake, New York.

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Type: Lake
Description: lake in Hamilton County, New York, USA
Also known as: “Kil-lo-quaw”, “Pa-pol-po-ga-mak”, “Racket Lake”, “Ragged Lake”, and “Raquette Pond”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Strawberry Island and St. William’s Catholic Church.

Strawberry Island

Islet

Strawberry Island is an island on Raquette Lake in Hamilton County, New York. It is located northeast of Raquette Lake. St Hubert Island is located northeast of Strawberry Island.

St. William's Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on Long Point on Raquette Lake in Raquette Lake, Hamilton County, New York. The building and grounds are no longer part of the Catholic Church/Ogdensburg diocese but are maintained by a nonprofit organization.

Camp Pine Knot

Historic site

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Camp Pine Knot, also known as Huntington Memorial Camp, is a Great Camp on Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Constructed in 1877 by William West Durant, it was the first of the Adirondack "Great Camps" and epitomizes the architectural style.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Raquette Lake.

Raquette Lake

Hamlet

Photo: DzikieKwiaty, Public domain.

Raquette Lake is a hamlet in the town of Long Lake in Hamilton County, New York, United States. The community is on New York State Route 28 on the western side of Raquette Lake. Great Camp Sagamore is in the hamlet. Raquette Lake is situated 2 miles southwest of Raquette Lake.

Raquette Lake

Category: body of water
Location: Hamilton, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.84009° or 43° 50′ 24″ north

Longitude

-74.63781° or 74° 38′ 16″ west

Elevation

1,762 feet (537 metres)

Open location code

87M7R9R6+2V

GeoNames ID

5133424

Wikidata ID

Q7294461

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Raquette Lake” goes by many names.

Arabic: “بحيرة راكيت”
Chinese: “拉奎特湖”
French: “Raquette Lake”
Italian: “Lago Raquette”
Malayalam: “റാക്വെറ്റ് തടാകം”
Spanish: “lago Raquette”
Spanish: “Lago Raquette”
Venetian: “lago Raquette”
Vietnamese: “hồ Raquette”

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