William Henry Forest

Land Description

William Henry Forest is a beautiful maple property with a scenic wilderness pond, adjacent state lands, long road frontage and multiple building sites. Set in the Gore Mountain Region of the Adirondacks, it is being offered publicly for the first time in nearly 50 years. The property had been actively managed for decades resulting in an exceptional sugar maple resource with a great deal of flexibility for the next ownership, including timber, wildlife, recreation and sugar bush options. The ownership has pursued an uneven-aged management strategy with the goal of using single tree and group selection methods to establish multiple age classes of quality northern hardwoods. Most forest stands are on an 8-12 year thinning cycle although some have not been thinned since 2002. These stands can be thinned any time in the near future.

The property is bisected by a town-maintained road which connects to State Route 28 and all the amenities of the central Adirondacks. Inside the property, three miles of well-planned forest roads lead into the heart of the land, providing dry weather access for trucking out logs and outstanding recreational access. Property bounds encompass 80% of the shoreline of Aldous Pond, a scenic and undeveloped 3-acre gem whose other shoreline is state land. Tucked privately away from the road frontage and accessed by an extensive hiking trail system, this pond is a private and attractive retreat destination.

There are excellent year-round or weekend home site options along the road frontage with a scattering of smaller ponds that attract wildlife and add to the property’s aesthetics.. Electric and phone services are available roadside and a recently drilled well is located near the property’s only structure, an historic timber frame barn. This barn has been used as a primitive camp, but can also function as equipment storage once a more permanent home is established.