Brandy Pond, also known as Bay of Naples Lake, is a small

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

Naples, Maine Naples is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. It is part of the Portland– South Portland– Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The population was 3,925 at the 2020 census, and it is home to part of Sebag ...

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, that is connected to Long Lake by the Chute River. Brandy Pond is connected to

Sebago Lake Sebago Lake (Sih-Bay-Goh) is the deepest and second-largest lake in the U.S. state of Maine. The lake is deep at its deepest point, with a mean depth of . Sebago is the deepest lake wholly contained within the entire New England region. Along ...

by the

Songo River The Songo River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 30, 2011 river in Maine. The river flows from Brandy Pond (Cumberland County, Maine), Brandy Pond at the south en ...

, which runs through

Sebago Lake State Park Sebago Lake State Park is a public recreation area encompassing on the north shore of Sebago Lake in the New England town, towns of Naples, Maine, Naples and Casco, Maine, Casco, Cumberland County, Maine, Cumberland County, Maine. It opened in ...

. To get to Sebago Lake through the Songo River, one must pass through

Songo Lock Songo Lock is the last surviving lock of the Cumberland and Oxford Canal, a 19th-century canal in southern Maine, United States. The lock is located on the Songo River, just above its confluence with the Crooked River at the northern end of Sebag ...

, one of the last remaining hand-operated locks in the country. Brandy Pond is bounded by a commercial (downtown) area called the "causeway" on Rt. 302, an area of homes on the southerly side called Scenic Drive, a golf course on the northern side, as well as many private homes and public campgrounds and condominiums.

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Lakes of Cumberland County, Maine Naples, Maine Lakes of Maine {{Maine-geo-stub

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