Woods Lake, located in the Silver Lake Wilderness Areas, is a small lake that sits between Lapland Lake XC Ski Center and the Northville-Placid Trail.

How to get there

From the bridge in Northville, continue 3 miles on NY-30 N, then turn left on Benson Road. In 4.5 miles, there will be a gravel parking area with signage for Woods Lake.

Key takeaways

There are two trails that lead to primitive campsites, and the shores of Woods Lake, both of which diverge near the trailhead. The leftmost trail, with red trailmarkers, leads 0.25 miles to the lake. The rightmost trail, the Northville-Placid Trail, reached primitive campsites and near the shoreline of Woods Lake after roughly 0.35 miles, at which point it continues around the east side of the lake.