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Great Bend is a hamlet and census-designated place in the northern part of the Town of Champion in Jefferson County, New York.

Great Bend takes its name from the pronounced bend in the Black River, which borders the community to the northeast and northwest and separates it from Fort Drum and the village of Deferiet across the water.

Great Bend had a population of 807 at the 2020 census, almost identical to the 801 people and 313 households counted in 2000, spread across about 5.9 square miles.

The hamlet sits directly against the southern section of the Fort Drum military reservation, and the Army's presence began next door in 1908, when it established Pine Camp near Great Bend, the post that grew into today's Fort Drum, home of the 10th Mountain Division.

Great Bend stands at the junction of New York State Routes 3 and 26, with Route 26 crossing the reservation about six miles northwest to Evans Mills and running seven miles southeast to West Carthage.

In the 19th century Great Bend was a Black River mill village: the Great Bend Paper and Pulp Company, incorporated in 1868, made brown hanging paper in a four-story stone building on the river's south bank that had been erected in 1845 as a gristmill.

Because of its position at Fort Drum's southern gate area and along the Black River, Great Bend's modern life is closely tied to the soldiers, civilian workers, and river recreation of Jefferson County's North Country.