Billion-Dollar Bet: New York’s Risky Investment in Lake Placid’s Olympic Dream Brian Mann with Nicholas Mann When I go to see Mike Pratt at the Olympic Regional Development Authority’s glossy new state-funded headquarters in L... Read More
A Lavender Paradise Nestled in the Champlain Valley Niki Kourofsky “I love the look of the lavender against the mountains,” says Lindsey Pashow, owner of Adirondack View Lavender. Pash... Read More
Barefoot Hiking in the Adirondacks Kristen A. Schmitt Wynde Kate Reese sets off for a day hike that will take her to the top of Rooster Comb Mountain in Keene Valley. She’... Read More
Grand Adirondack Hotel Annie Stoltie Longtime Adirondackers get attached to places the way they knew them, mostly for sentimental reasons. In my case, mor... Read More
Heart of Darkness: Hiking the Adirondacks at Night Brian Mann Standing on a shelf of rock looking toward the High Peaks, I realized my mistake. I had no headlamp, no source of lig... Read More
How Fireflies Find Love with the Language of Light Curt Stager Yellow-green sparks shimmer among shadowy pines overlooking my backyard on the outskirts of Saranac Lake. It is a war... Read More
My Adirondacks Project Adirondack Life Adirondack Life has published stories about kids, but from adult perspectives. Now it’s their turn. It’s time to know... Read More
A Closer Look at Adirondack Bats Adirondack Life Why should you care about bats? “Besides the fact they’re cute,” says bat researcher Vanessa Rojas, assistant profess... Read More
Silent as the Grave: A Forgotten Quaker Burial Ground Neal Burdick The humble, plain-living Quakers who lie buried here rejected displays of vanity and so kept death, as they had life,... Read More
Star Struck Tim Rowland Some night this summer when the sky is clear, pick up a pair of binoculars, step away from the fire pit and open your... Read More
From Old Mountain Phelps to Today’s Adirondack Guides Annie Stoltie Plenty has changed—not just the park’s physical landscape, with its trail system and network of highways that connect... Read More
The Pleasures and Perils of a Frozen River Tom Van de Water I learned to skate on thin ice with my grandfather. “Tickly bender ice,” he called it. Read More