Notch Lake
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Notch Lake is a small body of water in Edgewood, New York, in the Town of Hunter in the Catskill Mountains. It is located near the Stony Clove Notch, and is located near the edge of the Devil's Tombstone Campsite, bordering New York State Route 214. There is also a parking lot near the shore.
One thing unusual about it is that it is one of the few places in the Catskills where there is a patch of Boreal Forest growing below 3,000 feet above sea level. A fire occurred near the northern shore in the 1990s.
The lake is the beginning of the Stony Clove Creek, and was created near the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago. It was formed when the same meltwater that formed the Notch burst through, and flooded the area, forming a lake that then started emptying out, thus making a creek. The flood basin itself has receded into a small lake.
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