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Nature & Environment
Road Work
It is snowing, the flakes descending in endless, languorous swirls. Seemingly from nowhere, the snowplows emerge—yellow lights flashing and blades ...
Preserving Our Night Skies
On the evening of January 2nd, Lake Placid attorney Amy Quinn took her dogs for a walk in her quiet neighborhood behind the village’s old railroad ...
“When Smelt Are Running, It’s a Signal of Spring.”
"I tell my kids,” says Tom Conrad, “that when smelt are running, it’s a signal of spring, when everything wakes up after winter.” And those kids we...
“When Smelt Are Running, It’s a Signal of Spring.”
"I tell my kids,” says Tom Conrad, “that when smelt are running, it’s a signal of spring, when everything wakes up after winter.” And those kids we...
Could Wolves Repopulate the Adirondacks?
After eradication in the Lower 48, wolves are now thriving in some Rocky Mountain states. The animals had disappeared from the Adirondacks by 1900...
Ice-fishing’s a Way of Life for this Veteran Adirondack Guide
Terry Watson is usually much more careful. But when the chance to skitter across frozen Copperas Pond in search of big lake trout presented itself ...
Travel
My Quest to Sample Soft-Serve around the Adirondack Park
For most Adirondackers, a trip to the local soft-serve stand is a ritual filled with nostalgia—summer isn’t complete without that cold, creamy cone.
Inside Lake Kora, a Gilded Age Great Camp Turned Luxury Resort
Kora offers time-travel to the Gilded Age. You no longer have to ring a bell for service, but somehow, someone there knows exactly what you want an...
On Track with Inlet’s Latest Eatery, The Caboose
Who says you need train tracks to have a train? Though Inlet’s nearest railroad—the Raquette Lake Railway, which ran a couple of miles to the north...
My Quest to Sample Soft-Serve around the Adirondack Park
For most Adirondackers, a trip to the local soft-serve stand is a ritual filled with nostalgia—summer isn’t complete without that cold, creamy cone.
Inside Lake Kora, a Gilded Age Great Camp Turned Luxury Resort
Kora offers time-travel to the Gilded Age. You no longer have to ring a bell for service, but somehow, someone there knows exactly what you want an...
On Track with Inlet’s Latest Eatery, The Caboose
Who says you need train tracks to have a train? Though Inlet’s nearest railroad—the Raquette Lake Railway, which ran a couple of miles to the north...
Recreation
Late-Season Riding at the Ausable Chasm Mountain-Bike Trails
And then there are the mountain-bike trails he has spent more than a decade creating near Ausable Chasm, all bearing the names of classic heavy-met...
Explore 5 Central Adirondack Communities on the TOBIE Trail
My TOBIE trail adventure last summer was perfectly planned—in my head, at least.
Big Views and Tricky Maneuvers on Pitchoff Mountain
Pitchoff Mountain, nine miles east of Lake Placid, has two distinct personalities.
Big Views and Tricky Maneuvers on Pitchoff Mountain
Pitchoff Mountain, nine miles east of Lake Placid, has two distinct personalities.
What I Didn’t See on the Way to Pine Lake
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 like I was marching to my doom.
The Over Easy Is the High Peaks’ Toughest Mountain Bike Route. No Yolk.
By the time I reached the first climb of the Over Easy Mountain Bike Route, the whole canopy bowed with the weight of the rain. My single-track rib...
History
The Standoff: What Really Happened at Moss Lake
Thomas Delaronde Tiohkwanóiron and his family were the last to leave Moss Lake in 1977. In the early hours of the morning on May 13, 1974, a convoy...
The Extraordinary Life and Work of Julian Reiss
There are lives so well lived, and Julian Reiss lived such a life, that the most basic question is the most difficult to answer: where to begin?
Good Time Charley: The Life of Theme Park Patriarch Charles R. Wood
Once upon a time, there was a larger-than-life man named Charles R. Wood—better known to all as Charley—who dedicated his life to fun. He strode on...
The Standoff: What Really Happened at Moss Lake
Thomas Delaronde Tiohkwanóiron and his family were the last to leave Moss Lake in 1977. In the early hours of the morning on May 13, 1974, a convoy...
The Extraordinary Life and Work of Julian Reiss
There are lives so well lived, and Julian Reiss lived such a life, that the most basic question is the most difficult to answer: where to begin?
Good Time Charley: The Life of Theme Park Patriarch Charles R. Wood
Once upon a time, there was a larger-than-life man named Charles R. Wood—better known to all as Charley—who dedicated his life to fun. He strode on...
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From the Archives
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Far Out: Timothy Leary’s Trip to Cranberry Lake
Cranberry Lake's summer of drugs
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How to Remove Your Frozen Tongue from a Pole
And other essential winter skills every Adirondacker needs to know
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Arto Monaco and the Land of Makebelieve
In the early 1950s, at a bend in the Ausable River near the foot of Ebenezer Mountain, Arto Monac...
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Valentino and Me
Foxlair photograph courtesy of the Johnsburg Historical Society. Rambova and Valentino photograph...
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Miniature Golf in the Kingdom
Miniature golf is a magical experience for a surprisingly large number of people. A lot of luck i...
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The Revolutionary Roots of Lake Luzerne’s Name
A few months ago I came across a 1788 handwritten letter by a French nobleman, the Chevalier de L...
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Ice Jam Inn Brings “Elevated Comfort Food” to Upper Jay
It’s doubtful that moules frites and Upper Jay were ever mentioned in the same breath before chef...
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As Maple Goes High-Tech, the Romance of the Old Ways Lingers
I know I’m not the only one who took on chickens as a pandemic project. Tomatoes and raspberries ...
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Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day at P2’s Irish (or is it French?) Pub
P-2’s Irish Pub, in Tupper Lake, has all of that and more at its annual St. Paddy’s Day blowout. ...
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