Sylvan Lake

Sylvan Lake is located next to the community by that name in the Town of Beekman, New York, United States. It is the deepest and second-largest lake in Dutchess County.It is a popular local recreation spot. Many summer camps are located along it, as well as a large private campground.GeographyIt is an irregular rounded shape, with a 116acre surface area, located near the town's southwestern border with East Fishkill. High unnamed hills rise to 820ft to its northeast, 500ft above the lake. The unincorporated hamlet of Sylvan Lake is located to its southeast and east. Dutchess County Route 10 runs northwest from the hamlet along the lakeshore, providing access to the nearby Taconic State Parkway via the NY 82 state highway at Arthursburg.To the southwest are lower hills. The lake's unnamed outlet brook flows at first northward through a 91acre wetland between two smaller hills at that end but soon turns southward, carrying the drainage from the lake and its 0.81sqmi basin south a few miles to Fishkill Creek. From there it reaches the Hudson River at Beacon.