Nick's Lake State Park
what a lovely place!  Our friends J&D joined us here for 3 nights over the Columbus Day weekend. Nick's Lake is a smallish lake, located just a short way outside Old Forge in the Adirondack Park. The campground is a typical NY state camp, well appointed with good sites and reasonable spacing. We were on no-power sites so relied on our on-board systems. This was the first time that we had used the furnace all night, but we found that the down comforter over our memory foam mattress was sufficient that we only needed the furnace set to low, and were very comfortable. We did find, however, that the fridge goes super efficient when run on gas. With it set at 5 on the first night it froze most of the food! eventually we had it down to 2 and it was still very cold.
Picks in Old Forge:  if you have 2 cars and kayaks or canoes, take one car to the North end of North Street and launch there while leaving the other car in the parking lot at mountain Man Sports in town. You then have a nice 3-3.5 hour paddle down the Moose river back to Old Forge. BUT, there is a portage of about 3 block or so (seemed longer :)  ) in the middle of this run that can be quite a work out. If you have kayak wheels, take them along. there are some very pretty sandbars on which you can haul out for rest stops along the way though. Nick's Lake itself is worth some paddling time too, especially at sunset.
On this trip we added a canopy to our inventory. Its just a cheap ($50) one from Walmart, but we really appreciated being able to cook under that when we got light rain, and being able to leave our chairs out and not have them wet with dew.  I also appreciate not having pine needles in my scrambled eggs! Two 7 x 9 tarps bungie corded around the sides made a very cozy wind break also.
As usual we got a lot of passers by stopping to ask about the Aliner, especially seeing there were two in a row this time.