State Department of Environmental Conservation officers rescued three lost people in the Cranberry Lake area in recent days.

On June 19 DEC’s Ray Brook Dispatch received a call at at 7:39 p.m. from two lost hikers in the Cranberry Lake Wild Forest. The hikers were advised to call 911 to determine their position.

Initial attempts to gain the subjects’ coordinates were delayed and returned with questionable reliability. The hikers from Bath underestimated the trip to Hedgehog Pond, turned around, attempted to bushwhack as a shortcut, but instead became lost in Bear Swamp for several hours.

Forest Ranger Shea directed the hikers using their compass and headlamps back to the trail via phone. Rangers Shea and Curcio met the hikers at the Bear Mountain trailhead. St. Lawrence County 911, St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office, and Cranberry Lake Campground staff assisted.

On June 16 at 8:22 p.m., DEC received a call from state police requesting assistance in locating a missing 85-year-old woman from Star Lake.

A friend saw the woman enter the woods riding her four-wheeler to check the trails on her property off the Oswegatchie trail road. When the subject didn’t return, the friend called for help.

Forest rangers and search crews located the woman’s four-wheeler and quickly found her. At approximately 12:45 a.m., the woman was evacuated by ATV and transported to a local hospital for medical evaluation.