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Nearly everyone can name a place or two or, if they’re lucky, three, that for them is like no other. Those are the pl...

Spike Pulitzer (1941–2013) was a paradox, even to those who knew him well. He was complex yet simple, tough but tende...

I began to wonder what kind of camping trip this was shaping up to be when the guys I’d met just hours earlier tapped...

The shiny, clean Subaru pulled over and a friendly voice from behind a surgical mask asked, “Everything OK? You need ...

I choose to believe it was him. The rest of the details are foggy, but what I remember clearly is his backpack pullin...

In early December, John Davis, a wilderness advocate, was riding his bike on a dirt road near his home—a cabin deep i...

My father loved fishing and would go anywhere, by any means, to fish in new places. My mother, not so much. Many year...

Among the great camps, peaked roofs and proud lodges of the Adirondack Park, an early modernist work by one of Americ...

Lake Luzerne, May or June, 1969: We always ate breakfast at Walt's Country Corner Restaurant. Walt, a gnomish Dane, b...

You are a college student from Albany, or a doctor from Montreal, or the mother of an athlete playing in a hockey tou...

The four corners in Stony Creek meet at the crossing of two roads to nowhere. One peters out among the hunting camps ...

First the waters rose, cutting off the one, tenuous road connec­tion. Decades later; the railroad stopped running. An...