Spitfire Lake

 ( Adirondacks ) 

Spitfire Lake is a part of the St. Regis River in the Adirondacks in northern New York State and is in area. Along with Upper and Lower St. Regis Lake, it became well-known in the late 19th century as a summer playground of America's power elite, drawn to the area by its scenery and by the "rustic charms" of Paul Smith's Hotel. It is the site of a number of grand old summer "cottages" and Great Camps; Frederick W. Vanderbilt, Anson Phelps Stokes and Whitelaw Reid were among the summer residents. "The camps of many of these families began as tent colonies, with separate units for sleeping, dining, games, and so on, and evolved into permanent structures built with understated taste".Jerome, p. 109

Spitfire is part of the original Seven Carries canoe route from Paul Smith's Hotel to Saranac Inn.

Image:The Inlet, Spitfire - 1903.jpg|The Inlet, Spitfire Lake, 1903 Image:A Camp on Spitfire Lake.jpg|A "Camp" on Spitfire Lake Image:Boat house on Spitfire Lake.JPG|Boat house on Spitfire Lake

• Donaldson, Alfred L., A History of the Adirondacks. New York: Century, 1921. . (reprint)
• Jerome, Christine Adirondack Passage: Cruise of Canoe Sairy Gamp, HarperCollins, 1994. .

• New York Times, "Point Racing at Paul Smiths", August 9, 1909. (pdf)
• New York Times, "Yacht Racing on St. Regis Lake", August 7, 1904. (pdf)
• New York Times, "Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan to be Guest of Ambassador Reid at Dinner in Honor of Birthday of D.O. Mills", September 5, 1909. (PDF)