Guide to the Great Outdoors 2009

John Dillon Park: Opening the Woods to the Differently Abled

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 northeast.

Garden of Earthy Delights: Adirondack Mushrooms

Photograph by Robert Lubeck In 1907 the eminent land surveyor Verplanck Colvin wrote a letter to his friend Charles Horton Peck. He acknowledged having received Peck’s annual report of the state botanist and wrote, “It gives me pleasure to see that you continue...