Recreation

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...

For some Adirondackers, the ultimate in North Country living is being able to ski out the back door. But for Harold S...

And then there are the mountain-bike trails he has spent more than a decade creating near Ausable Chasm, all bearing ...

Massawepie is an Iroquois term that means “lake by the marsh”—the source of the name being obvious, with the Massawep...

Careening down dirt trails on two wheels—usually after a quad-busting, lung-searing uphill slog—has become one of the...

My TOBIE trail adventure last summer was perfectly planned—in my head, at least.

Pitchoff Mountain, nine miles east of Lake Placid, has two distinct personalities.

When I told my 16-year-old daughter I was going on a seven-or-so-mile round-trip hike alone last September, she acted...

By the time I reached the first climb of the Over Easy Mountain Bike Route, the whole canopy bowed with the weight of...

Scott van Laer, a recently retired Department of Environmental Conservation forest ranger, knows a thing or two about...