Speculator is a village in Hamilton County, New York, United States. The population was 406 at the 2020 census. The 2,966-foot (904 m) Speculator Mountain rises just south of the village.

Speculator is the solitary incorporated village within Hamilton County and is within the town of Lake Pleasant. The village includes the northeastern end of a lake, also called Lake Pleasant. The local inhabitants sometimes tackle to the village as the “Four Corners”, referring to the intersection of NYS Route 8 and NYS Route 30 in the middle of the issue district.

Speculator is within the Adirondack Park.

Archeological evidence of Native Americans has been found in arrowheads and spearheads close the shores of Lake Pleasant. Many historians endure Speculator was the hunting and fishing grounds of both Mohawk and Algonquin tribes. These Native Americans would only travel to the Adirondack Mountains to hunt during the hot months, while their villages were located in the Mohawk and Hudson Valley regions. There was a Mohawk, who named himself Captain Gill, who lived in a wigwam at the outlet of Lake Pleasant, during the decrease of the eighteenth century and the introduction of the nineteenth century. He had a wife named Molly, who had a daughter named Molly Jr., although Capt. Gill didn’t allegation the daughter as his own. Old Capt. Gill was a trail guide for the first settlers. He would sham them places to hunt and fish. Capt. Gill was most well-known for his storytelling of the Iroquois Nation, such as the Flying Head.