CASEY’S Corner

Casey’s is a great all around general store for the Adirondacks. They have a little of everything from various fuels, groceries, take out food, sundries, camping supplies as well as some friendly service and conversations. They are also a good stop for snowmobilers on Trail 89 and hikers and skiers on the Northville Placid Trail

This store is the kind of place you want to go to when you live in the Adirondacks, or are just visiting… the food is great, and the general store ambiance from the past is still as new and fresh as ever.
You can order up your food any way you like it, and join in at a large table in the center of the store, where you will be caught up in conversations about everything from politics to the current price of gas, bread, whatever.
There is a nice selection of groceries, an attached liquor store, gas pumps, propane, and a menu with a nice selection of cold and hot sandwiches, with some local flavor added, pizza, soup, and a selection of local souvenirs, such as wasabi olives, peach salsa, t-​shirts, candy, etc.
What they lack in inventory is, by far, made up for with personal attention, and inclusion in uplifting and often hilarious conversation.

To the first reviewer, Casey’s is not somewhere you go because of lack of options it is a genuinely great place to find service, food, & household items. It is a unique little local business & to be perfectly honest I’d take them any day over the big box gas stations like Stewart’s, Mobile, or any other large chain store. It most certainly is much cleaner & better kept than the vast majority of gas stations out there. The ladies who work there are friendly & will go the extra mile to try to provide what you need. I honestly can’t believe how snooty your review is & you clearly haven’t spent much time there. The selection may be limited (they are not a full grocery store, nor do they make themselves out to be) but the service is not!

I am laughing aloud a bit as I type this review, because this is the kind of store you’d never go to except for the fact it’s the only store in miles and miles so you will go anyway, if you have to, no matter what I say here. Info here as a reader service in that vein. (If you want a better selection of stores, and in particular ‘personal hygiene’ items, you’ll have to drive into Speculator another 10 miles up the road.)
You can’t «check in» here via Unilocal because you’re out of data service here, at least as of this writing. The Unilocal map is also way off, I don’t know how to correct it — it is on Route 8, just after the turn from Old Piseco Rd where it T’s, just past the Piseco Elementary School as you drive north/​east. It’s maybe a mile or two south of where it appears on the Unilocal map, below Oxbow Lake.
Casey’s serves the Lake Piseco-​Oxbow Lake area, and has your basic convenience store goods, but it’s pretty basic. Beer and ice are the prime draws, although they do have a make-​a-​sandwich section tucked in the back of the store. The interior of the store is dank and looks like it hasn’t been touched by paint or a new fixture in about fifty years, and the prices are all summer-​you-​have-​no-​alternative high. They don’t have any camping-​specialty items beyond bug spray (no extra tent stakes or freeze dried food or whatever). Surprisingly, pretty much no «amusements», like water toys or other things to buy to alleviate kid boredom in camp or at the lake house: they’re definitely missing a potential high-​margin business here.
There is a liquor store attached, «J&L Liquors», run legally as a separate business but for all intents and purposes it’s part of Casey’s — if nobody’s minding the store and the door is locked you are directed to go ask for help at Casey’s. Liquor store had pretty basic selections but you can at least get wine.
They’re open to 9 during summer hours, though (and then scale the hours way back the rest of the year, it would seem) so if you need some quick calories, or a six-​pack (the selection was decent for a small place, with some local craft brews like Saranac Lake, etc., although the cases were heavy on the Coors and Bud end of things) it’s there for you in your hour of need.