The Fall Work Weekend, club meeting, and OPEN HOUSE is planned for Saturday September 18th, 2010. Please RSVP to Barry (bbaldigo@hotmail.com) if you plan to attend work weekend, or if you wish to visit for a tour on Sept 18th or some other weekend.
   
Robinwood Park is a family-oriented hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, skiing, ATVing, and canoeing club located in the Town of Long Lake near the former village of Sabattis, NY. See the club map on this page (click on the link to the left) or click on the Mapquest link on the “Area Links” page. The Club owns 4100 acres and leases 3400 acres of land from Lyme Adirondack Timberlands and was first established more than 30 years ago mainly as a hunting and fishing club on forests formerly owned by Abbot Augustus Low, Herbert Henry Lehman (governor of New York State from 1933 to 1942), and International Paper Company. Bog Lake, Clear Pond, and Rainer Pond are NY State owned water bodies contained entirely or mostly within club borders. Miles of headwater streams in highlands and spruce bogs of the club feed the Bog, Oswegatchie, Beaver, and Raquette Rivers. Lows Lake adjoins the western club boundary and Lake Lila is a few miles south along the Adirondack Scenic Railway. The main inflow to Lows Lake is the Bog River which flows out of the mile-long Bog Lake and Clear Pond. Largemouth bass are abundant in all lakes, whereas native brook trout are abundant in Bog Lake and stocked rainbow trout are stocked in Clear Pond. Deer, bears, rabbits, eagles, loons, and grouse are commonly slighted on the lease. Moose are observed occasionally, however, their tracks can be seen on the loop road weekly.

The club is composed of many private camps and 2 cabins that are shared by members who are unassociated with a private cabin. The club camps (Moose and Squirrel Lodges – get it?) each have propane cook stoves and lamps, wood stoves, two bedrooms, and can sleep up to 6 people each. A main lodge, next to the club cabins, has running water, a generator, and is used mainly for cooking, meetings, meals, and entertainment. We are located about 20 miles NW of Long Lake. The main gate is located west of Little Tupper Lake near the large dirt parking area that was once the Sabattis Station Hotel at the long forgotten village of Sabattis, NY. The club cabins and main lodge are located 0.9 mile SW of the main gate and Bog and ClearLakes are another 4.0 miles further into the property. A recently dismantled 6-bedroom log cabin was once located on the rocky point overlooking BogLake. The road continues 3 miles past the lakes and then begins a 6 mile loop with numerous logging roads branching off; some are overgrown and some are active. A few lead to active beaver ponds and meadows or recently cleared log landings.
 

Robinwood Park truely represents the “Real Adirondacks”. Club members treat others as family and go out of there way to help when/where needed. There are always some event or activity for everyone to enjoy. Our annual summer picnic and winter banquet (and 1 or 2 work weekends) permit members to socialize as much or as little as they wish. A timber harvest is currently underway and allows members opportunity to see parts of the landscape not seen in years. Several cuts have been done to help promote grouse and woodcock populations. The logging in selected areas will also improve forage for, and the survival of, local deer herds. Whether you want to hike the backwoods; stroll down a dirt road or old skidway; canoe miles of flows and lakes; hunt deer, bear, or grouse; fish for trout or bass, atv or snowmobile throughout the four seasons; socialize with other members; enjoy a camp fire; or simply read a book by a cozy woodstove, the lands (and members) of Robinwood exemplify what the Real Adirondacks are all about.

Robinwood Park has a limit of 125 full time members, who pay annual dues (currently $600/yr) which cover the period of May 1 to April 30. Full memberships allow year-round access to the property, use of club cabins (or one of the private cabins if so affiliated), and free access for their spouse and children (under 18 years old, in school, or in the military). Restricted winter-snowmobile memberships and small-game hunting memberships are also available during the winter months. All members and quests are expected to read and adhere to club by-laws, respect the rights and property of other members, and steward the forest lands that we lease from Lyme. We often have openings for new members, therefore, please contact us for more information on full memberships or part-time snowmobile memberships, a tour of RobinwoodPark, or to be added to our waiting list.