Recreation

16-Mile Level on the Middle Branch: This stretch has remote boreal habitat where endangered spruce grouse were recent...

Adrenaline junkies should look elsewhere; Bike the Barns is “a tour, not a race,” says BikeADK’s Doug Haney, organize...

Sometimes an extended getaway can seem like such a commitment. What if you’re only in the mood for a quickie? Whether...

Mount Adams is a dazzling but somewhat difficult hike, with a distance and gain in elevation similar to the High Peak...

 This cyanotype of two gentleman picnicking atop Panther Mountain was captured almost 130 years ago by Grotus Reising...

The science of combustion is enough to make an indifferent student of chemistry’s eyes glaze over, but starting a fir...

"I ’m not good with a paintbrush or anything, but I’m pretty good with an excavator.” Luke Peduzzi cracked the beer h...

More than a century after it was erected on top of Swede Mountain, in Hague, the metal fire tower still stands. In it...

Wynde Kate Reese sets off for a day hike that will take her to the top of Rooster Comb Mountain in Keene Valley. She’...

Standing on a shelf of rock looking toward the High Peaks, I realized my mistake. I had no headlamp, no source of lig...

Just north of Long Lake, at the end of a dirt road and beyond an ornate gate, is a campground like no other in the no...

What challenge could you present that tricky knees and rising blood pressure could overcome? What would get the spiri...