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Nature & Environment

Finding Common Ground in the Adirondacks

Last summer, when Gerry Delaney spoke at a public forum about the future of the Adirondack Park, the conservative councilman from the town of Saran...

Wrangling Yaks in Westport

When you’re 1,200 pounds with a set of horns fit for an oilman's Cadillac, temperament is everything.

In the Weeds: The Fight Against Eurasian Watermilfoil

The spring thaw also brings warmer waters, which happen to be the preferred habitat of an invasive aquatic species that’s sparked a vigorous debate...

In the Weeds: The Fight Against Eurasian Watermilfoil

The spring thaw also brings warmer waters, which happen to be the preferred habitat of an invasive aquatic species that’s sparked a vigorous debate...

How Fireflies Find Love with the Language of Light

Yellow-green sparks shimmer among shadowy pines overlooking my backyard on the outskirts of Saranac Lake. It is a warm June evening, and the humid ...

A Closer Look at Adirondack Bats

Why should you care about bats? “Besides the fact they’re cute,” says bat researcher Vanessa Rojas, assistant professor at SUNY-ESF Ranger School, ...

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Travel

The Wigwam

In the late 1970s my parents bought a summer cabin on Fourth Lake. Calling it a summer cabin is high praise because it was little more than a shack...

Masterpiece Theater: Rustic Furniture All-Stars

Every fall for more than 30 years, the Adirondack Experience, in Blue Mountain Lake, has hosted the best in classic and contemporary rustic art. Me...

Dartbrook Rustic Goods

Adirondacks’ signature style leans toward woodsy, of course, and if you’re in search of a store that features all things bark, twig, stuffed, feath...

The Wigwam

In the late 1970s my parents bought a summer cabin on Fourth Lake. Calling it a summer cabin is high praise because it was little more than a shack...

Masterpiece Theater: Rustic Furniture All-Stars

Every fall for more than 30 years, the Adirondack Experience, in Blue Mountain Lake, has hosted the best in classic and contemporary rustic art. Me...

Dartbrook Rustic Goods

Adirondacks’ signature style leans toward woodsy, of course, and if you’re in search of a store that features all things bark, twig, stuffed, feath...

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Recreation

Bike the Barns

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

Hiking: Panther Mountain

This cyanotype of two gentleman picnicking atop Panther Mountain was captured almost 130 years ago by Grotus Reising. Panther, near Tupper Lake, a...

Skills: How to Start a Fire

The science of combustion is enough to make an indifferent student of chemistry’s eyes glaze over, but starting a fire comes down to a couple of si...

Skills: How to Start a Fire

The science of combustion is enough to make an indifferent student of chemistry’s eyes glaze over, but starting a fire comes down to a couple of si...

A Cut Above: Trail-Builder Luke Peduzzi

"I ’m not good with a paintbrush or anything, but I’m pretty good with an excavator.” Luke Peduzzi cracked the beer he’d tucked in his coat pocket ...

Swede Mountain: A Southern Adirondack Fire-Tower Scramble

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

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History

Murderer in Mooers Forks

Think serial killer, and Berkowitz, Bundy or Dahmer come to mind. However, in the 1890s, following Jack the Ripper’s London killing spree, Mudgett,...

A Trove of Vintage Lake George Photographs

For 75 years, Jule and Fred Thatcher captured everything from chowder parties to swim marathons and everyone from prize fighters to Roosevelts.

The Black Woods

If by chance The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier lands in your bookstore this November and you are bold enough to t...

Murderer in Mooers Forks

Think serial killer, and Berkowitz, Bundy or Dahmer come to mind. However, in the 1890s, following Jack the Ripper’s London killing spree, Mudgett,...

A Trove of Vintage Lake George Photographs

For 75 years, Jule and Fred Thatcher captured everything from chowder parties to swim marathons and everyone from prize fighters to Roosevelts.

The Black Woods

If by chance The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier lands in your bookstore this November and you are bold enough to t...

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April 2024

Winners of our photography contest—plus your guide to the total eclipse, inside a cozy new eatery in Tupper Lake, the return of Saranac Lake’s Dew Drop Inn and a peek into a reality star’s Adirondack life.