Crane Pond
Crane Pond is beautiful and one of the easiest Adirondack Mountain hiking backpacking trails. It is one of our favorite Adirondack day trips! This is a relatively large pond (actually seems like a lake) with beautiful views. 
The hike in total is 1.9 miles from the parking area along a dirt road which is easy hiking and great cross-country skiing. However, you can make the hike much shorter if you wish because you can drive nearly all the way to the pond (depending on the time of year type of car you have that is). We did it with our Honda and so do many others. This works well if you have small children or are bringing camping equipment or a kayak/canoe. We haven’t bought our kayaks in yet but next time we will! Ultimately you will come to an area with makeshift camp sites and room for parking. Only the most rugged vehicles can make it any further as the road becomes quite flooded for a hundred feet or so. Some trucks and SUVs do make it through, as you may see them parked near the pond on the other side.
When you first arrive at the pond you’ll be at a relatively small section of the pond, but keep going as it turns to the left and it becomes quite large. There is also all sorts of beautiful plant life.
Right at the turn in the pond there is a marshy area where our son discovered the two carnivorous plants, the Pitcher Plant and the Sundew Plant (see below). We understand that finding them is quite rare in the Adirondacks! 
At the same spot, the last two times we were there, we were within 25 feet of a magnificent loon! Hopefully you will see one too. We highly recommend visiting Crane Pond. Absolutely beautiful! Directions from our chalet at Loon Lake:
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There are many lovely campsites around the pond. Camping is permitted as long as it is 150 feet from the pond.
