Map: Onondaga Escarpment Unique Area

More about Lake Kushaqua...

Lake Kushaqua is a 380 acre man-made lake in Onchiota. Part of the Rainbow Lake, it offers paddling and several primitive campsites along it's western shore. On it's eastern shore is the Buck Pond State Campground (fee).

Map: Lake Kushaqua
Photo: Flames
Photo: Mud Pond Mountain and Buck Pond Hill
Photo: Rainbow Lake
Photo: Another View of Campsite 2
Photo: Camp
Photo: Lake Kushaqua
Photo: Last Oranges and Browns of Fall
Photo: Another Roadside Campsite on Kushaqua
Photo: Camp
Photo: Camp

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  • Beautiful. This elusive site — is it still okay to camp there? I live in Saranac Lake, and we often go out to Kushaqua, but the only site I see along the “other” side of the lake (i.e., not the Buck Pond side) says Camping Prohibited.

    How does one get to this site?

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