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Nature & Environment
Eternal Love
The best years of my life have, so far, passed in a crease of the Ausable River Valley. The love of my life, our children, our friends, our trials and triumphs—it’s all happened here. Recently, after the kids were tucked in and the dog walked, my husband and I sat on our front porch, the river roaring after days of rain, the creeping night swallowing the Jay Range in the distance.
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 Saranac laid out a vision that’s become a startling new normal. He acknowledged deep policy divides while insisting that all the park’s factions embrace neighborliness and civility.
Staying Grounded: The Ecological and Emotional Benefits of Green Burial
To the question often posed by evangelical preachers “do you know where you’ll spend eternity?” an increasing number of Adirondackers have an answer: in a pine forest by a wetland meadow in Essex.
Travel
Five Ways to Make the Most of Your Adirondack Autumn
Celebrate the harvest or lift a stein to the season at colorful gatherings throughout the park—find a bushel of fall fun at our events calendar.
Lake George Music Festival
Scholars say composer Samuel Barber wrote Adagio for Strings in Austria. But watch a sunrise from Lake George’s shoreline—waves lapping, light breaking through the dawn mist—and you can imagine how Barber’s heart-stirring masterpiece that crescendos and crashes might have been inspired by this place.
Drinking in the View: Highlands Vineyard
Lindsey Campagna grew up with this sprawling Champlain Valley view—her extended family has been living on Highland Road, in Keeseville, for decades.
Recreation
School of Fish
There is no better salve for post-traumatic stress, A. J. Beaudoin believes, than the call of the loon and the morning mist rising from an Adirondack pond.
High Drama: OK Slip Falls
From the river, the mouth of OK Slip Brook is little more than a comma in the epic poem of a trip down the Hudson Gorge.
Buck Mountain Fire Tower Trail
This spectacular view of the Whitney Wilderness Area and Little Tupper Lake comes to you courtesy of a very good boy.
History
The Haus on the Hill: Saul Goodman’s Lake Placid Refuge
There were times during his retirement to the Adirondacks when my grandfather, the 20th century’s greatest classical percussionist, Saul Goodman, fell silent behind the helm of his large automobile. With a half-smile on his lips he would take in the sweep of the Great Range while his fingers drummed out something specific on the rim of the steering wheel.
Highlander: Peter Fish, of Keene
As of early April 2012, Peter Fish, of Keene, had hiked 5,344-foot Mount Marcy 763 times. The 76-year-old retired forest ranger, who’s still a High Peaks fixture after working there from 1975 to 1998, chats about how to appreciate this place; why he sports a kilt; and where he’s planned his terrestrial exit strategy—not on what he calls “the Big M.”
Rondeau Rendezvous
After 12 hot, buggy miles, split by a night at Seward lean-to, they arrive at the über-rustic compound of iconic hermit Noah John Rondeau, who, though known to be irascible, welcomes and “confabs” loquaciously with them.
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Adirondack Homes & Camps 2026
Inside a secluded Tupper Lake camp, a former Lake Placid speakeasy and a 19th-century hotel-turned-home on Lake George—plus cozy seasonal cocktails, dazzling rustic lighting and more.
Home & Camp
Skanendowa Lodge
In its heyday, Skanendowa Lodge, a family compound of Adirondack cottages on Tupper Lake, drew high-society guests from Washington DC—writers, senators and presidents keen on escaping the sweltering summer in the city for the mountains.
Michigan Mac
Melt butter over low heat. Blend in flour, broth and black pepper to taste. Add milk. Cook quickly, stirring constantly, until mixture is thick and bubbly. Remove from heat. Add cheese and michigan sauce.
Michigan Sauce
Below is managing editor Niki Kourofsky’s never-fail recipe for this North Country staple, which can be made ahead and packed along for next-level campfire hot dogs. For a real treat, try her “Michigan Mac” recipe—a combination of meat sauce and homemade mac-n-cheese.
From The Archives
Valentino and Me
Foxlair photograph courtesy of the Johnsburg Historical Society. Rambova and Valentino photographs from the Library of Congress I’ll admit it—I’m prone to irrational crushes. No, not on people. I fall hard for the places I pass on road trip after...
Lost
Jack Coloney was last seen on June 6, 2006. He vanished several days later in the Moose River Plains Wild Forest, one of the most remote yet accessible regions of the Adirondack Park. A 10-day search, totaling more than 4,000 man-hours by a team of...
Rights of Passage
Geography predestines the Adirondacks for small-boat travel. Twenty-eight hundred lakes and ponds, thousands of miles of rivers and streams radiating out from the axes of elevation, cross-grained interconnections — all constitute a boater's...
Upstairs/Downstairs at Sagamore
Word that Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt Sr. had gone down with the Lusitania when it was torpedoed by a German U-boat in May of 1915 shocked the staff at Sagamore Lodge, the Vanderbilts' fifteen-hundred-acre Great Camp near Raquette Lake. "Everyone...
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