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Adirondack Experience’s annual FallFest, in Blue Mountain Lake, happens October 6. Photograph by Nancie Battaglia |
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1. Get Festive!Celebrate the harvest or lift a stein to the season at colorful gatherings throughout the park—find a bushel of fall fun at our events calendar. |
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 Photograph by Carrie Marie Burr 3. Visit an Apple OrchardFresh-from-the-tree apples, tangy cider and still-warm donuts—North Country orchards are the sweet spots of autumn. Make a day of it by picking your own peck at Rulf’s Orchard, in Peru (531 Bear Swamp Road), or Gunnison Orchards, in Crown Point (3208 Route 9N). |
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 Photograph courtesy of Fort Ticonderoga 4. Crack a Corn MazeRulf’s Orchard has one—with Flashlight Nights in October—but for a heroic challenge, follow history-based clues through the six-acre labyrinth at Fort Ticonderoga (102 Fort Ti Road) or search for hidden mailboxes in the eight-acre Great Adirondack Corn Maze, at Tucker Farms (64 Hobart Road, Gabriels), which stays open after dark on Fridays and Saturdays. |
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 Photograph by Nancie Battaglia 5. Break Out the Picnic BasketEat up the view at picture-perfect picnic spots such as Newcomb’s easy-access Overlook Park, with its gazebo and necklace of High Peaks; Elizabeth Point, on Thirteenth Lake, a relaxed two-mile round-trip walk to a picnic table and sandy beach; Peggy’s Point (lglc.org), in Hague, a lakeside setting with a community flower garden and ADA-accessible path and picnic table; or Sacandaga River Park/Pathway, in Speculator, offering a riverside picnic area and 1.5-mile ADA-accessible nature trail. |
Adirondack Store & Gallery: The Evolution of a Style Pioneer
Fifty-five years ago Tad and Linda Sturgis’s Adirondack Store was featured in the winter issue of Adirondack Life. By then, the couple’s emporium had been thriving for more than a decade.
