User:Adirondac/Cobblestone Creek

Cobblestone creek, a tributary of the Indian River (that empties into the Moose river, then the Black, and finally into Lake Ontario), flows out of a swampy area and valley that lies at the base of Panther Mountain. Into this lowland flows Yale brook from Twin Lakes, and a few unnamed drainage streams (one from Carter Mudhole)that run off the nearby mountains. All converge in a valley to form the Cobblestone. The creek gets it's name from the rocks it bubbles over- they are all cobbles, or river rocks- all smoothed from the erosions of water and sands over time since the glaciers receded. This stream begins in one of the highest areas of the Black River drainage. Only a short distance over the next mountain sees the beginnings of the adjacent West Canada drainage. The Black drainage flows north from this divide to the St. Lawrence basin, while the West Canada drainage flows south to the Mohawk, then east to the Hudson River, and on to New York City. The Cobblestone is a home to the eastern brook trout, as it flows through shaded hardwoods and spruce/pine forest, and the water stays cool enough before it reaches the Indian to support the trout. This area, the Moose River Plains, was part of the hunting, fishing and trapping grounds of one of the last of the Adirondack guides; French Louie. The Cobblestone is a remote home to the eastern brook trout, as it flows through shaded hardwoods and spruce/pine forest, and the water stays cool enough before it reaches the Indian to support the trout. This area, the Moose River Plains, was part of the hunting, fishing and trapping grounds of one of the last of the Adirondack guides; French Louie.