3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (986+ words) Over the past 25 or so years, I’ve learned the hard way on how to earn the rewards of getting to the top of an Adirondack fire tower. Sure, I can pick and choose only the short and easy ones. Or…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (1010+ words) The boating public might scarcely be aware that when they trailer their craft through the parking lot of the popular Second Pond Boat Launch on Lower Saranac Lake, they are sharing history with the horse-drawn wagons and Tin Lizzies that…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (431+ words) A famously muddy section of the Northville–Placid Trail that passes by Mud Lake in the West Canada Lake Wilderness was moved to higher ground this summer, a reroute regional foresters hope will keep beavers from flooding the trail and…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (659+ words) From the edge, the Adirondack Labyrinth looks like it could be crossed in under a minute: a compact spiral of stone and dirt paths, 70 feet across, laid into a mountain meadow in the hamlet of Bakers Mills in Johnsburg. Almost…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (437+ words) A year after a thunderstorm triggered a landslide that buried part of the Avalanche Pass Trail, crews are continuing to reconstruct the popular route, which remains closed to hikers. The Department of Environmental Conservation says work will continue through the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1064+ words) In 2020, a surge of new hikers arrived in the Adirondacks looking for safe outdoor recreation during the pandemic. In response, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation formed a program to teach them how to hike responsibly. And nowhere…...