St. Regis Lake
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St. Regis Lake names two linked lakes on the St. Regis River in Franklin County in the Adirondacks: 742-acre Upper St. Regis Lake and 350-acre Lower St. Regis Lake, joined through Spitfire Lake and a narrow channel called the slough. Paul Smith opened a hotel on Lower St. Regis in 1859, and the families who summered there built the camps and cottages that still line the shores; the hotel site became Paul Smith's College in 1946. The lakes anchor the Seven Carries canoe route and the St. Regis Canoe Area, the only designated canoe area in New York State, and Upper St. Regis is the home of the Idem-class sailboats first built in 1900.
