From Long Pond to Greenwood Lake
The water outside is not a natural lake, and it has been called three things. How it got its shape, its name, and a border down the middle of it.
Read
Lake Notes
On the Water.
Fishing, swimming, paddling — and the rules that actually apply out here.
Most of what you would come here to do starts at the end of the lawn. The lake is long and narrow, so a wind along its axis has miles to work with and the morning is the calm half of the day; our end is the shallow end, sheltered and weedy and much the quieter water. What follows is swimming, paddling, fishing, and the rules that actually apply out here.
Living Lightly on the Lake
There is no water main and no sewer out here. That is the whole reason the place feels the way it does, and why it asks three things of you.
Read
Fishing Greenwood Lake: License and Access
Nineteen hundred acres that fish like a much smaller lake. One license covers both states, and getting a boat on the water is the hard part.
ReadGuides
The longer pieces.
Paddling from the South End
The shallow half of Greenwood Lake is the sheltered half, which makes our end the good end to launch a kayak from — as long as you go before the wind and the wakes get up.
The Lake, End to End
Seven miles of water, two states, and two completely different lakes joined in the middle — one of which is under our dock.